Education
He graduated from the Fifth Gymnasium of Exarchia.
He graduated from the Fifth Gymnasium of Exarchia.
He also works in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini. He was born in Athens in 1954. He studied economics in Paris.
He earned a degree in economics (Paris X - Nanterre, 1979) and then took post-graduate specialization in financial (Paris X - Nanterre, 1981) and newer economic history (Ecole des Hautes, Etudes et Sciences Sociales).
As an economist, has worked with the Ministry of Finance (Greece) and with many banks like the Bank of Greece, Emporiki Bank and Eurobank EFG. Babis Papadimitriou has 2 daughters. Babis Papadimitriou has become recently popular for his daily media commentary about the Greek debt crisis and he has become notorious for his support of the Greek austerity measures.