希臘財長,世界上最難的工作?大綱

Meet Yannis Stournaras, the guy with the toughest job in the world.

讓我們來認識一下揚尼斯•斯托納拉斯(Yannis Stournaras)。他的工作是世界上最艱難的。

The 55-year old economist has just been named as Greece's new finance minister and will lead the country's negotiations with its European partners to ease the austerity program that comes with Greece's latest 173 billion bailout.
EPA揚尼斯•斯托納拉斯(Yannis Stournaras)這位55歲的經濟學家剛剛被任命爲希臘新財長，他將率隊參加希臘與其歐洲夥伴關於放鬆最新1,730億歐元援助方案附帶緊縮條件的談判。

Given the sentiment in the rest of Europe - already fed up with Greece's chronic foot-dragging and missed targets - this won't be an easy task.
考慮到歐洲其他國家的氣氛，這不會是一件容易的任務。這些國家已經受夠了希臘長期以來拖拖拉拉、達不到既定目標的做法。

But Mr. Stournaras, a widely-respected technocrat who has been in and out of government for more than a decade, may have one advantage: he's no politician. Instead, he is a plainly-spoken ambassador of common sense, known for his liberal critiques of Greece's overregulated economy.
但10餘年間斷斷續續擔任公職、備受尊敬的專家型官員斯托納拉斯或許擁有一個優勢：他不是政客。相反，他說話從不拐彎抹角，講的都是常理，並以不吝批評希臘經濟監管過度而聞名。

Above all, he was also willing to take a job that no one else wanted - and only a day after the previous designate for the post, banker Vassilis Rapanos, bowed out because of health reasons.
最重要的是，他還願意做一份其他人都不願做的工作，而且在一天之前，纔剛上任的前財長、銀行家瓦西利斯•拉帕諾斯(Vassilis Rapanos)剛剛因爲健康原因辭職。

"He was the best choice from a shrinking group of people that were willing to take the post,"said a senior official in the conservative New Democracy party that heads Greece's three-way coalition government.
希臘三黨聯合政府的領頭者、保守派新民主黨(New Democracy)的一位高級官員說，願意就任這一崗位的人越來越少，斯托納拉斯是其中的最佳人選。

"Stournaras knows he will become quite unpopular, quite fast, but he is not a politician so he doesn't have to think about the political cost."
這位官員說，斯托納拉斯知道他將很快變得相當不受歡迎，但他不是政治家，所以他並不需要考慮政治代價。

Mr. Stounaras, who helped negotiate Greece's entry into the euro zone in the late 1990s, also speaks the language of the creditors. "He knows the issues, the people involved and where there's space for Greece to negotiate," the official said.
斯托納拉斯在20世紀90年代晚期參與過希臘加入歐元區的談判，他也能從債權人的角度着想。上述官員說，他知道問題所在、相關人員，以及希臘的談判空間所在。

The veteran technocrat has served in previous government posts, serving as a special adviser to the Ministry of Economy and Finance and to the Bank of Greece on monetary Policy issues.
此前這位資深的專家型官員也曾在政府任職，當過經濟財政部和希臘央行(Bank of Greece)在貨幣政策上的特別顧問。

e had a very brief stint as development minister under the previous, one-month long caretaker government that preceded the country's June 17 elections.

在維持了一個月、直到希臘6月17日選舉的看守政府內，他曾短暫擔任開發部長。

Mr. Stournaras was born in Athens on December 10th, 1956.
斯托納拉斯於1956年12月10日生於雅典。

He studied economics at the University of Athens before obtaining a doctorate from Oxford University, specializing in Economic Theory and Policy. After his studies, he worked as a lecturer at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
他先在雅典大學(University of Athens)學習經濟學，後來在牛津大學(Oxford University)取得經濟理論與政策方向的博士學位。完成學業後，他在牛津大學聖凱瑟琳學院(St. Catherine's College)、牛津能源研究所(Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)擔任講師。

He joined the University of Athens in 1989, where he teaches economics, and he also chairs the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research, a Greek think tank.
斯托納拉斯在1989年入職雅典大學教經濟學。他也是希臘智庫“經濟與產業研究基金會”(Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research)的主席。

He served as chief economic adviser to Greece's finance ministry leading up to the country's entry into the euro zone in 2001.
2001年希臘加入歐元區之前，他曾擔任希臘財政部首席經濟顧問。

That role also meant he was point person for Greece in its regular contacts with international organizations like the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
這個角色還意味着，在希臘與國際貨幣基金組織(IMF)、歐盟委員會(European Commission)和經濟合作與發展組織(OECD)等國際組織的日常接觸當中，斯托納拉斯是希臘方面的負責人。

Other jobs have included serving as vice chairman of the state-owned Public Gas Corporation; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of formerly state-owned Emporiki Bank; Vice-Chairman of the Association of Greek Banks, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Debt Management Office.
斯托納拉斯還擔任過國有企業Public Gas Corporation副董事長、曾爲國有銀行的Emporiki Bank董事長兼首席執行長、希臘銀行業協會(Association of Greek Banks)副會長，以及公共債務管理局(Public Debt Management Office)董事會成員。

"We were all disappointed by the difficulty in finding a new finance minister, but I think that eventually this was the best choice," said economist Panagiotis Petrakis. "I'm sure Mr. Stournaras will do his best."
經濟學家帕納約蒂斯•佩特拉基斯(Panagiotis Petrakis)說，我們全都對尋找新財長過程中出現的困難感到失望，但我認爲任命斯托納拉斯終將是最佳選擇，我肯定他會全力以赴。