Athanasios Orphanides is a Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. From 2007 to 2012 he served a five-year term as governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus and from 2008 to 2012 he was a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. Following the creation of the European Systemic Risk Board in 2010, he was elected a member of its first Steering Committee. Earlier, he served as senior adviser at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he had started his professional career as an economist. His research interests are on central banking, finance, and political economy and he has published extensively on these topics. He obtained his undergraduate degrees in mathematics and economics as well as a PhD in economics from MIT.