Kyriakos Mitsotakis Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης MP |
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Leader of the Opposition | |
Assumed office 11 January 2016 |
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President | Prokopis Pavlopoulos |
Prime Minister | Alexis Tsipras |
Preceded by | Ioannis Plakiotakis |
President of New Democracy | |
Assumed office 11 January 2016 |
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Vice President | Adonis Georgiadis |
Preceded by | Ioannis Plakiotakis (Acting) |
Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Governance | |
In office 24 June 2013 – 27 January 2015 |
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Prime Minister | Antonis Samaras |
Preceded by | Antonis Manitakis |
Succeeded by | Nikos Voutsis (Interior and Administrative Reconstruction) |
Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens B |
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Assumed office 7 March 2004 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Kyriakos Alec Mitsotakis 4 March 1968 Athens, Greece |
Political party | New Democracy |
Spouse(s) | Mareva Grabowski |
Children |
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Alma mater | |
Religion | Greek Orthodox |
Kyriakos Alec Mitsotakis (Greek: Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης; born 4 March 1968) is a Greek politician who has been President of New Democracy and the Leader of the Opposition since January 2016. He served as Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Governance from 2011 to 2015. He has been a Member of the Hellenic Parliament (MP) for Athens B since 2004.
Born in Athens, he is the son of the former Prime Minister of Greece and honorary president of the New Democracy political party, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and his wife Marika.
He left Greece in 1968 for Paris, when he was six months old, along with his family, because his father was declared persona non grata by the Greek military junta. He returned when democracy was restored in 1974. In 1986, he was attending the Athens College, ending the year as salutatorian.
From 1986 to 1990, he studied Social Studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the U.S. where he graduated summa cum laude. He was also honoured with the Hoopes prize.
He worked as an economic analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank from 1990 to 1991 in London. He later returned to Greece and went to the Hellenic Air Force to fulfill his military duty.