Deputy Director General Market Infrastructure and Payments
Thomas Vlassopoulos is Director General Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank, appointed to the role in June 2025. The Directorate General oversees and coordinates the operation and development of payment systems and market infrastructure, and leads the digital euro project. He replaces Ulrich Bindseil, who left the ECB.
Prior to this appointment, Vlassopoulos served as Deputy Director General Market Operations from May 2021. Before that, he headed the Monetary Analysis Division within the Directorate General Monetary Policy from 2018 to 2021, and served as Deputy Head of the Systemic Risk and Financial Institutions Division within the Directorate General Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability from 2017 to 2018. He held Principal Economist positions in the Monetary Analysis Division and the Monetary Policy Strategy Division between 2012 and 2017, and worked as an Economist in the Monetary Policy Stance Division from 2008 to 2012. He joined the ECB in 2007 as an ESCB/IO Expert in the Monetary Policy Stance Division. Prior to the ECB, he was an Economist at the Economic Research Department of the Bank of Greece from 2004 to 2006. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the ECB Occasional Paper Series. His research has addressed monetary policy transmission and its interaction with financial stability. He holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, awarded in 1998.







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