Jorgo Chatzimarkakis
| Georgios Chatzimarkakis | |
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Georgios Chatzimarkakis, 2006
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 2004 – 2014 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 April 1966 Duisburg, Northrhine-Westphalia |
| Nationality | Greco-German |
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Free Democratic Party of Germany Greek European Citizens (Έλληνες Ευρωπαίοι Πολίτες) of Greece |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
| Profession | Political scientist |
Georgios Chatzimarkakis (Greek: Γεώργιος Χατζημαρκάκης; born 21 April 1966) is a German politician of Greek descent, Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany (part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe). He was a 2014 European Parliament candidate for the newly formed party Greek European Citizens (Έλληνες Ευρωπαίοι Πολίτες) of Greece.
Chatzimarkakis was born and grew up in Duisburg. In 1993 he graduated as M.A. in political science at the philosophical faculty of the University of Bonn. He supplemented his studies with a visiting research fellowship at St Antony's College, University of Oxford under the auspices of Ralf Dahrendorf in 1995. From 1993 to 1996 Chatzimarkakis worked as a science policy officer at the Bundestag.
From 1996 to 1998, he was member of the planning department of the Foreign Office of Germany. Chatzimarkakis held a lectureship at the University of Duisburg from 1997 to 2001, during which time he also worked on his doctoral thesis on Informational Globalism - A cooperation model of global governance using the example of electronic commerce (Informationeller Globalismus - Kooperationsmodell globaler Ordnungspolitik am Beispiel des Elektronischen Geschäftsverkehrs ). In 2011 the University of Bonn revoked his doctoral title. The committee charged him guilty of plagiarism in his thesis.
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