Greece's new finance minister, Filippos Sachinidis, is typical of the
new breed of politician that crisis has brought to the fore. A
macroeconomist who studied at Queens College in New York and lectured at
Manchester University, where he earned his doctorate before going into
politics, the 49-year-old Socialist Pasok MP is a reform-minded
moderniser, a low-profile politician with a technocratic approach.
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