Pavlos Yeroulanos was born in Athens in 1966. He studied history at Williams College. In 1994 he received a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He has worked as Financial Director for Photoelectron Corporation, as well as for Alpha Finance, the investment-banking arm of Alpha Bank and for Barclays Bank in Athens. From 1994 to 1998 he served as Chief Financial Officer of KEFALONIA Fisheries and oversaw the restructuring of the company. From 2004 to 2006 he was a consultant at Egon Zehnger International.

From 1999 through 2004 he has served, successively, as Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Secretary General for Greeks Abroad. In 2006 he was appointed Director of the Political Bureau of the President of PASOK and after that he became Secretary for Communications of the party acting as campaign manager for the European election campaign and the National election campaign in 2009. He is a founding member of the Hellenic Resources Institute in the U.S.A. He speaks English and French. He is married to Lara Barrazi-Yeroulanou with whom he has two daughters, Tatiana and Alexandra.