[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/speakers\/” button_text=”SPEAKERS” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_border_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” button_icon=”#||divi||400″ button_icon_placement=”left” button_on_hover=”off” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_team_member name=”Ioannis Tsakiris” position=”European Investment Bank” image_url=”https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ioannis-Tsakiris-scaled.jpg” icon_color=”#163d94″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” position_text_color=”#E09900″ position_font_size=”18px” position_line_height=”1em” hover_enabled=”0″ locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” title_text=”Ioannis Tsakiris” sticky_enabled=”0″]Ioannis Tsakiris is Vice-President of the European Investment Bank.<\/p>\n
From 2019 to 2023 he was Deputy Minister for Development and Investments in Greece, responsible primarily for the public investment programme, the European funds and the national development bank. He was also Alternate Governor of the EBRD and the World Bank and in the Board of Directors of the Black Sea Trade and development Bank.<\/p>\n
Until 2019, he held several senior positions in the European Investment Fund, involved in European venture capital markets that were under development phase, in particular in the South-eastern Europe and EU Neighbouring Countries, where he had also set-up and developed several investment and financing initiatives and platforms. <\/p>\n
He holds a BSc and an MSc in Mining Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and an MBA degree from the Management School of the Imperial College in London.[\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_post_nav _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ioannis Tsakiris is Vice-President of the European Investment Bank. From 2019 to 2023 he was Deputy Minister for Development and Investments in Greece, responsible primarily for the public investment programme, the European funds and the national development bank. He was also Alternate Governor of the EBRD and the World Bank and in the Board of Directors of the Black Sea Trade and development Bank. Until 2019, he held several senior positions in the European Investment Fund, involved in European venture capital markets that were under development phase, in particular in the South-eastern Europe and EU Neighbouring Countries, where he had also set-up and developed several investment and financing initiatives and platforms. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Mining Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and an MBA degree from the Management School of the Imperial College in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245427,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245422\/revisions\/245427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}