Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has resigned after sealing a deal with the opposition to approve an international bailout.<br/> Papandreou was born on June 16th 1952 in St Paul, Minnesota, and educated in Sweden, Canada, the U.S. and Britain.<br/> He came to power in 2009 promising to help the poor and fight a "pandemic" of corruption.<br/> Shortly after taking office, his government revealed that the budget deficit would be three times more than the previous government's estimates - an admission which triggered the Greek debt crisis.<br/> A raft of austerity measures followed to meet the terms of EU and IMF bailout packages, prompting waves of national strikes and protests.<br/> By May 2011, most Greeks felt Papandreou could not save them from an economic meltdown.<br/> Papandreou sealed his fate last week with a disastrous attempt to call a referendum on the bailout.<br/> Throughout his career, critics made fun of Papandreou's mild manner, his mistakes speaking Greek and his enthusiasm for riding a bicycle.<br/> He also had to continually prove his mettle with a Panhellenic Socialist Movement party still nostalgic for the leadership of Papandreou's charismatic late father Andreas, who led the country from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996.<br/> Nick Rowlands, Reuters
