John Milios

He was chief economic adviser of the Greek leftist party SYRIZA until March 2015.

Since at least 2012 until March 2015 he was the chief economic adviser to Syriza. Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras leads a coalition government (Cabinet Tsipras) since the election on 25 January 2015. In February, Milios proposed a scheme to kick start struggling European economies. It involved the European Central Bank buying debt from Euro zone countries. It would hold the debt until the countries Gross domestic product (GDP) rose to five times its value. ("GDP-linked bond") Milios had proposed similar ideas in 2014.

During his studies, Milios became interested in political economics, founding the quarterly journal of economic theory Theseis in 1982. In 1988, he received his second Ph.D. in Social and Economic Studies at the University of Osnabrück, Germany.

John Milios (Greek: Γιάννης Μηλιός [ˈʝanis miˈʎos] ; born 1952) is a Greek social scientist and Marxian economics scholar. He is Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens. An author of several scholarly books, Milios is also director of the quarterly journal of economic theory Theseis.

John Milios was born in 1952 in Athens as the son of a lawyer and a dentist. Having attended Athens College, he graduated in the same class with former prime minister George Papandreou, before studying mechanical engineering at TU Darmstadt, Germany, and Athens, where he received his Ph.D. in 1981.