Chris Allen

Chris Allen is the resident representative in Athens of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. He works closely with the Greek authorities on monitoring the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan and on Post-Programme Surveillance. Since joining the European Commission, Mr Allen contributed to the EU’s negotiating strategy on global climate change, was responsible for Commission industrial and business policy making, and played an important role in the development of the EU Horizon 2020 programme on key enabling technologies. He was previously head of economic forecasting at the European Central Bank and was a university lecturer. He has numerous publications in economics.