Michalis Georgios Sallas (Greek: Μιχάλης Γεωργίος Σάλλας; born 1950) is a Greek businessman, banker and academic, who has been Chairman of Piraeus Bank (today Greece's largest) from 1991, to 2016.
[2] He began his academic career in Germany, as a researcher in Heidelberg University's Institute of International Comparative Statistics.
[3] Sallas was actively involved in politics as a supporter of Andreas Papandreou, a socialist politician who served for many years as Greece's Prime Minister; in 1974, Sallas was a founding member of PASOK, Papandreou's party.
In successive Papandreou governments, he served as General Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, Governor of the Hellenic Industrial Development Bank, economic advisor to the Prime Minister and chairman of the committee for the modernization of the Greek banking system, among other positions.
[2] Sallas became Chairman of Piraeus Bank after the right-wing government of the conservative New Democracy party decided to privatize it in 1991.