Spyridoula (Sissy) Papagiannidou

Independent non-executive member

Spyridoula Papagiannidou is currently Director of the Banking Supervision Department at the Bank of Greece.

She has served at various positions at Bank of Greece for 31 years, mainly in the areas of financial stability, payment and securities settlement systems and banking regulation and supervision.

She has been member in numerous Committees and working groups at the European Central Bank, the European Systemic Risk Board, the European Commission and the European Council (where she, inter alia, chaired the Council Working Party on PSD2) and was active in EU technical assistance missions for West Balkan counties. She participated in the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank and was member of the Board of Supervisors (2015-20) and elected member of the Management Board of the European Banking Authority.

She is currently member of the Market Infrastructure and Payments Committee and of the High Level Task Force on Central Bank Digital Currency at the European Central Bank.

She has studied Economics at the University of Athens and is fluent in English, German and French.

Nationality: Greek