Public Debt Management Agency (Greece)

The Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) is a government agency in Greece. Its stated purpose is the: "improvement of the cost of funding and the achievement of the best possible structure (composition and maturity) of the public debt according to the needs of the Hellenic State and the prevailing international economic conditions."^[1]

Public Debt Management Agency

Abbreviation	PDMA
Formation	1999
Type	Government agency
Region served	Greece
Chairman	Athanasios Petralias
Director General	Dimitris Tsakonas
Parent organisation	Ministry of Finance
Website	www.pdma.gr/index.php/en/

Organisation

The PDMA was founded in 1999.^[2] It is headed by a Board of Directors, appointed by the Minister of Finance. This Board of Directors includes the Director General of the PDMA, who handles the day-to-day running of the agency.^[3] The current make-up is:

• Chairman of the Board: Athanasios Petralias, Secretary General of Fiscal Policy
• Deputy Chairman of the Board: Ioulia Armagou, General Director of Fiscal Policy and Budget
• Member of the Board: Theodoros Mitrakos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece
• Member of the Board: Christos Triantopoulos, Secretary General of Economic Policy of the Hellenic Ministry of Finance
• Member of the Board: Dimitris Tsakonas, General Director of the PDMA

Director Generals of the PDMA

• Dimitris Tsakonas, 2018–present
• Stelios Papadopoulos, 2012–2018
• Petros Christodoulou, 2010–2012
• Spyros Papanicolaou, 2005–2010
• Christoforos Sardelis, 1999–2004

Sources: ^[4][5][6]

See also

• Greek government-debt crisis