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Athanasios Orphanides (born 22 March 1962) is a Cypriot economist who served as Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus between 3 May 2007 to 2 May 2012 and a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank between 1 January 2008 and 2 May 2012.Prior to his appointment as Governor he served as Senior Adviser at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the USA where he started his professional career as an economist in 1999.