Great to read the Bloomberg article about Andreas Georgiou. You may be interested to read the statement issued by the ISI last week, which can be found here: https://www.isi-web.org/images/news/2016-09ISI%20Statement%20on%20Greece.pdf
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Ada Krimpen
Director
International Statistical Institute
Original Message:
Sent: 10-01-2016 12:51
From: Andrew Reamer
Subject: Bloomberg: Andreas Georgiou fixed Greece's fake econ stats, now he faces criminal charges
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-30/greece-s-least-wanted-man-lives-in-maryland
For 21 years, Andreas Georgiou worked in relative obscurity as an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington. When the European debt crisis hit and his home country of Greece began teetering toward bankruptcy, Georgiou felt a patriotic urge to help. In early 2010 he applied online to run a newly created office designed to clean up Greece's much maligned economic statistics. He got the job, and in August 2010 he moved to Greece for a five-year term as president of the Hellenic Statistical Authority.
Six years later, rather than being seen as a hero who helped fix Greece's broken finances, Georgiou is vilified there. His review of the country's public accounting exposed years of bogus statistics and along the way made him a target for critics who blame him for the strict austerity measures Greece's creditors imposed.
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