Markos Kyprianou
| Markos Kyprianou Μάρκος Κυπριανού |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus | |
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In office 3 March 2008 – 19 July 2011 |
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| President | Dimitris Christofias |
| Preceded by | Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis |
| European Commissioner for Health | |
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In office 1 January 2007 – 3 March 2008 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | Himself (Health and Consumer Protection) |
| Succeeded by | Androulla Vassiliou |
| European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection | |
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In office 22 November 2004 – 1 January 2007 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | Pavel Telička |
| Succeeded by | Himself (Health) Meglena Kuneva (Consumer Protection) |
| European Commissioner for the Budget | |
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In office 1 May 2004 – 22 November 2004 Serving with Michaele Schreyer |
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| President | Romano Prodi |
| Preceded by | Michaele Schreyer |
| Succeeded by | Dalia Grybauskaitė (Financial Programming and the Budget) |
| Personal details | |
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22 January 1960 Limassol, Cyprus |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Trinity College, Cambridge Harvard Law School |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Church of Cyprus |
Márkos Kyprianoú (Greek: Μάρκος Κυπριανού [ˈmarkos cipriaˈnu]; born 22 January 1960 in Limassol) is a Cypriot politician who served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs until his official resignation on 19 July 2011, following the events of the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion. A member of the Democratic Party, he was formerly Cyprus's Finance Minister and the European Commissioner for Health. He tendered his resignation as Commissioner on 29 February 2008 to become Foreign Minister in the government of newly elected President Dimitris Christofias; the resignation took effect on 3 March 2008, when his successor, Androulla Vassiliou, was confirmed as Commissioner.
He studied Law at the Law School of the University of Athens and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he specialised in International Law and Tax Law and was awarded a master's degree in Law (LLM). He earned a second master's degree in Law, specialising in Company Law and Taxation, at Harvard Law School. He continued his academic career as a trainee at the Human Rights Commission of the Council of Europe and by carrying out research in International Law at the University of Cambridge.
He is the younger son of Spyros Kyprianou, who was President of Cyprus from 1977 to 1988.
As a Commissioner, one of his policies was the promotion of warnings on tobacco packets, with the Commission moving towards pictorial warnings. Following several European Union member states enacting bans on smoking in public places Kyprianou proposed a plan for an EU-wide ban of that kind. In May 2007, Kyprianou released a paper to tackle the shortage of organ donation in the Union. The plan included promotion, specially trained medical staff and an EU wide organ donor card. Markos Kyprianou was officially charged on 24 January 2012, together with seven other persons, by the Attorney General of the Republic of Cyprus in relation to the Mari blast.
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