Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic on July 8th, 2019. He was reelected in June 2023.

President of Nea Demokratia since January 2016, managed to modernize his party, renew and boost its membership base, create a system of funding based on small annual donations by the members and put in place a code of transparency and accountability in the operations of the party.

He led his party to a landslide victory three years later, campaigning on a platform for jobs, strong growth and lower taxes. Nea Demokratia was the first party to win an absolute majority in the Greek Parliament since 2009.

As Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Government from June 2013 until January 2015, he spearheaded comprehensive national reforms by implementing a functional reorganization of institutions, structures and processes.

A member of the Parliament since 2004, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has participated in the Committee for Constitutional Amendment, the Committee for Trade and the Committee for National Defense. He was also an active member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

As Chairman of the Environment Committee between 2007-2009, he passionately pursued issues pertaining to climate change and advocated for the need for environmentally sustainable growth. Since then, he was the shadow-minister for the environment and climate change for Nea Demokratia until 2012.

Before entering politics, he worked for ten years in the private sector as a financial analyst with Chase Investment Bank, a consultant with McKinsey and Company and finally as CEO of NBG Venture Capital at the National Bank of Greece.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Social Studies, summa cum laude, from Harvard University, and earned an MA in International Relations from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis is married to Mareva Grabowski and they have three children, Sofia, Constantinos and Dafni.

As Commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Šuica’s task is to create a common and people-centred agenda and develop partnerships with the Mediterranean region and countries across our Southern Neighbourhood based on common values and dialogue. She is also the Commissioner in charge of demography.

She is responsible for:

• leading the work on the New Pact for the Mediterranean to address shared challenges and invest in a common future, building partnerships focused on investment, economic stability, jobs, energy, transport, security, migration, and other areas of mutual interest
• setting up a Trans-Mediterranean Energy and Clean Tech Cooperation Initiative to increase renewable energy trading and boost clean tech manufacturing in the region
• working with partners in the region to operationalise the external aspects of migration policy, such as border controls and fighting smugglers, in respect of human rights, as well as work more closely on security, fighting organised crime and terrorism
• supporting the High Representative/Vice-President on the Middle East and the Gulf
• steering the implementation of the Demography Toolbox to help Member States address their demographic challenges
• supporting work on increasing participation in the labour market, especially by women, young people and other underrepresented groups

Domna Michailidou is an economist and academic. She serves as the Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs in Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ government.

She was born and raised in Piraeus and studied economics in the United Kingdom. She attended the University of Cambridge, where she earned a master’s degree in Development Studies and a PhD in Development and Economic Crises.

She worked as a lecturer at the universities of Cambridge and UCL, as a consultant for state entities such as Brazil, Iran, Uganda, France, and organizations like the UN, OECD, and the British Council. After 11 years abroad, she returned to Greece as an economist for the OECD’s Competition Toolkit and, since 2017, served as a reform advisor to the President of New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Politics

In 2019, at the age of 31, she became the youngest member of the government. As Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, she managed the portfolio of Welfare and Social Solidarity. She established and implemented active inclusion policies for vulnerable groups, focusing on child protection, preschool education, deinstitutionalization, independent living for people with disabilities, and elderly care.

In the elections of May 21, 2023, she was elected MP for Piraeus A and Islands.

In the June 25 elections, she was appointed Deputy Minister of Education, Religious Affairs, and Sports, responsible for primary and secondary education, including special education and the operation of vocational high schools. Throughout her tenure, she significantly contributed to designing and implementing strategies to prevent and address school violence and bullying.

From January 4, 2024, to June 14, 2024, she was sworn in as Minister of Labor and Social Security.

On March 15, 2025, she was sworn in as Minister of Social Cohesion and Family.

Mr. Fanaras is the President and CEO of Metron Analysis S.A. He specializes in sampling, design and analysis of social and political research as well as strategy. In the past he was Head of educational programs in the field of IT at the National Center for Public Administration, Statistical Analyst at the National Statistical Service.

He is a graduate of the Mathematics Department of the University of Ioannina with a specialization in data analysis (Master from Middlesex University) and further training in sampling techniques (Training of European Statisticians University of Southampton), in Great Britain.

Mr. Fanaras has extensive experience in project management, having managed and supervised more than 800 research projects, both in political and social research and in market research. He is considered one of the most accomplished political and social analysts in Greece, excelling in providing strategic guidance and secondary analysis. Mr. Fanaras has been an advisor to large financial organizations, political parties, prime ministers and presidents in European countries. Other activities are the presentation of election results and pre-election and post-election surveys, regular articles in the daily press, scientific conferences and educational research and statistical analysis work (e.g. National Technical University, National Center for Public Administration, GSEE Labor Institute). .

Mr. Fanaras is a Member of the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (E.S.O.M.A.R.), the World Society for Public Opinion Research (W.A.P.O.R.) and the Hellenic Mathematical Society.

Nikos Chatzinikolaou was born on October the 9th 1962, in Alexandroupolis, Evros. He started working as a journalist in 1983 covering education topics in the newspaper “MESIMVRINI”.

In 1984, he received the “Botsi” award for journalism. He then started to cover political issues. Meanwhile, he started his collaboration with the Sunday edition of the newspaper “Akropolis”, the newspaper “Ethnos” and the magazines “ENA” and “STATUS”.

In 1987, he started working for the newly founded radio “ATHINA 9,84”. At the same time he became member of the founding committee of the station. He also temporarily worked at the radio stations “ERA”, “SKY 100,4”, “PLANET” and “STATUS FM”.

In 1989, he started his collaboration with MEGA TV station. From 1998 until 2003 he was General Director of News and Information department of the station.

From 2003 until 2007, he collaborates with ALPHA TV Station, as Executive Vice President and General Director of News and Information department and later, as Chairman and CEO.

From April 2007 until October 2011 he collaborates with ALTER TV station.

In September 2007 he founded along with Andreas Kouris the «Real Group», which owns the radio station “Real Fm 97.8” in Athens, “Real Fm 107.1” in Salonica, “Ellinikos 93,2” in Athens, the weekly (every Sunday) newspaper “Real News” and the news portal “Real.gr”.

In 2012 Nikos Chatzinikolaou created his own personal site-blog “Enikos.gr” and the financial news blog “Enikonomia.gr”.

From September 2013 until June 2016, he collaborates with STAR Channel TV Station.

Since January 2017, he is the anchorman of the main news edition of ANT1 TV Station.

Nikos Chatzinikolaou is board member of European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA).

She studied Political Sciences at the Department of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and media training at the BBC Academy. She is a journalist, political analyst, TV anchorwoman until 2011 and General Manager of the think tank Institute of Democracy, Konstantinos Karamanlis until 2014.

She is an experienced and distinguished media trainer for “tradional” and cyber crisis management in companies such as: PETROLA HELLAS, HELLENIC PETROLEUM (ELPE), LAFARGE BETON, HALYPS BUILDING MATERIALS, ITALCEMENTI GROUP, REGENCY CASINO THESSALONIKI, HSBC, CREDIT AGRICOLE LIFE, DELTA, KATSELIS, GOODY’S, EVEREST, CARREFOUR, GENESIS FARMA and others.

Katia Makri is a journalist at Antenna Channel, one of the leading television networks in Greece. She has more than 20 years of experience as a political editor, and worked during that time for Ethnos, Eleftherotypia and Real newspapers, Star Channel, Alter Channel, Real, Alpha, and Flash Radio.

She was born in Athens, she has a master in European Studies and speaks fluently English and Italian.

Foivos Karzis is a journalist. For the last 35 years he has worked in radio (Flash 9.61, Athens 98.4, City 99.5), television (ERT, Star) and the press (Naftemboriki, Eleftheros Typos, Ethnos tis Kyriaki, Ependisi, Kefalaio, Kerdos, 24 Ores, Proti, Eksormisi, Oikonomikos Taxidromos). Today he works as a communications consultant at Eurobank.

He has written the books “The Middle Void. The rise and fall of the middle class in Greece and the world” (Papadopoulos, 2020) and “Between two Greeces” (Polis, 2006). He studied Byzantine philology in Greece (EKPA) and linguistics in Britain (Reading).