He was born in Athens in 1974. He attended the Leontio Lyceum and then studied at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, from where he graduated in 2002. He continued his studies at the Department of Administration & Organization of Health Units of the National School of Public Health. Master in 2008. In 2011 he was awarded a doctorate by the Medical School of the University of Athens.
From 1990 to 2004 he played basketball professionally. He is 2.00 meters tall and competed mainly as a small forward. He played for Panionios, Ionikos, AEK, Apollon Patras, as well as for the national basketball teams. With the National Children in 1991 he became European runner-up. In the Men’s National Team he made 6 appearances, achieving 76 points. With Panionios, he won the Greek Cup in 1991, while during his four-year tenure at AEK, he won a Championship in 2002, two Cups in 2000 and 2001, as well as the Saporta Cup in 2000.
In 2011 he was awarded an excellent doctorate by the Medical School of the University of Athens. He completed the specialty of orthopedic surgeon at the Athens General Hospital (2006-2012). He was elected Municipal Councilor in the Municipality of Athens (2006) and from 2007-2011 he was President of the Youth and Sports Organization of the Municipality of Athens, with many activities and sporting events.
In 2010, as a candidate for Attica Regional Governor, he became the leader of the Major Opposition of the Attica Region. At the same time he assumed the duties of Deputy Program Secretary of New Democracy.
In 2012 he was elected in A ‘Athens with New Democracy and served as Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection.
In the elections of January and September 2015, he is re-elected member of parliament for Athens A with New Democracy.
From January to November 2016, he was the New Democracy Immigration Policy Coordinator.
On November 18, 2016, he was appointed spokesman for New Democracy.
On October 13, 2017, he assumed the duties of Head of National Defense of the New Democracy.
On July 9, 2019, the Prime Minister Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis is appointed Minister of Health.
On August 31, 2021, he was appointed Minister of Tourism by the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Mr. Patoulis was born in Athens. He entered Athens Medical School in 1981 and specialized in Orthopaedic surgery at the Athens ‘Laiko’ Hospital, where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the subject of his specialization. Being a doctor is fully in line with his character and his beliefs that he should be useful to people and contribute to the society as a whole.
At the same time, being a restless spirit and a ‘man of action’ interested in the contemporary needs of society, he also specialised in Health Economics and graduated from the National School of Public Health. He holds a PhD of the Athens School of Medicine. At the same time, he has been involved for many years in trade unions.
He worked in the Hellenic Social Insurance Institution (IKA) at the areas of Tavros, Amaroussion, Erythraia and Lykovrysi. He was also a Scientific Collaborator at “ERRIKOS DYNAN” and “ATHINAIKI KLINIKI” hospitals.
His trade union experience dates back in 1995, when he founded the Athens & Piraeus Association of Specialist Physicians (SEIAP). He served as the President of the Association for 3 consecutive years (1995-1998).
In 1997, he established the “Young Doctors” Pan-Hellenic Society and he served there as President until 2004.
His involvements and contribution to society started as member of the “Young Doctors” society; he has offered voluntary work by participating to visits in Greek islands near the border, preventive information lectures at Local Authorities, school medicine etc.
He is the founder and chairman of the Union of Professional Doctors of Attica (E.E.L.I.A.) (2002). For 8 consecutive years, he has served as member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Medical Society (I.S.A.) and Vice-President for 3 years.
In 2011 and 2018 he was elected Ρresident of the Medical Association of Athens (I.S.A.), a position he holds until today.
His involvement in politics began in 1998 when he was elected municipal counsellor for the first time at the Municipality of Pefki. He has served as the President of the Municipal Council of the Municipality of Pefki and Chairman of the Pefki Municipal Company for Social and Cultural Development (D.E.K.P.A.).
Also, he is the President and founder of the “Hellenic Healthy Cities Network” scientific society, the President of the Pefki Municipal Medical Centre, and responsible for voluntary work. He was the President for one year of the “KORAIS” Vocational Training Centre of the Municipality of Pefki. Moreover, for 8 consecutive years he offered voluntary services as a doctor.
In 2006, 2010 and 2014 he was elected Mayor of the Municipality of Amaroussion (Marousi).
In 2008, he was elected member of the Union of Municipalities and Communities of Attica (TEDKNA) and president of the Committee on Social Policy and Human Resources of TEDKNA, until 2010.
During the 2011-2014 period, he was elected President of Association of Municipalities for the Protection and Restoration of Penteliko.
Moreover, during the years 2008-2010, he was the President of the non-profit organization HL7 Hellas.
In 2014, he was elected President of Central Union of Municipalities of Greece, a post he served until 2019.
In 2015 and 2016 he was elected Vice President of the Council of Municipalities and Regions of Europe.
In 2018, he was elected President of ELITOUR.
In 2019 he was elected Regional Governor of Attica, the largest metropolitan region of Greece, with population of around 3,829 million. In 2019 he was elected as the 1 st Vice President of the Association of the Greek Regions at the General Assembly of the Greek Regions.
In February 2020 he was elected Vice President and head of the Greek delegation at the European Committee of the Regions for the 2020-2025 period.
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Born in Thessaloniki in 1988. She studied Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a master’s degree from the University of Macedonia in European Youth Policy. She specialized in Counseling Psychology.
Katerina Notopoulou is a Member of the Standing committe on production and trade, and Member of the Special Permanent Committee on Equality, Youth and Human Rights.
Member of the new generation of SYRIZA,
She speaks English and French.
Yiannis Retsos was born in Athens in 1969. He is a graduate of School of Law, University of Athens and holds a postgraduate degree in Hotel Management, from Cornell University, specializing in Hospitality Real Estate Finance.
He is the CEO and one of the major shareholders of Electra Hotels & Resorts, which operates six hotels in Athens, Thessaloniki, Rhodes and Kefalonia.
Yiannis Retsos was elected President of SETE – Greek Tourism Confederation in May 2017 and he is currently in the second term in the Presidency of the Association.
In March 2020 he was appointed Member of the General Council of the Bank of Greece.
From April 2011 until July 2017, he served as Chairman of the Hellenic Hoteliers Federation and during the period 2009 – 2011, he was the Chairman of the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association.
He was born on July 13, 1972. He comes from Platanias, Crete and grew up in Chania.
He has served as General Secretary of the Municipality of Chania, while he has a postgraduate diploma from the School of Law and Political Science of the University of Athens.
He has worked for 20 years, among other things, as a research associate in the Diplomatic Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Also, as Deputy General Director of the Konstantinos Mitsotakis Foundation as well as as a scientific collaborator in the Greek Parliament. He was an advisor to Kyriakos Mitsotakis when he was Minister of Administrative Reform & e-Government.
On August 28, 2019, he assumed the duties of General Secretary of the Hellenic Tourism Organization (EOT) with the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
He runs a tourism business, speaks excellent English and good Italian, is married and has a son.
Secretary-General for Telecommunications and Posts Athanasios Staveris-Polykalas is specialised in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms, data analysis, and Natural Language Processing technologies.
On July 2019 he was appointed an adviser to the Minister of Digital Governance with strong contribution on cybersecurity matters and the implementation of the 112 alert service in cooperation with the Secretariat-General of Civil Protection.
Mr Staveris holds a PhD on High Energy Physics from the University of Athens, a Master’s degree on Applied Physics from the National Technical University of Athens, and an MBA for Executives from Plymouth University.
He has worked on a broad range of ICT projects in the private sector for more than ten years, while he has also worked as a researcher at the CDF experiment in Fermilab, USA through an RTN scholarship and with the cooperation of the INFN Sezione di Pisa.
Elena Kountoura is Member of the European Parliament for Greece. She has been appointed Coordinator of the Left group at the Transport and Tourism Committee, TRAN, and is member of the European Parliament Tourism Task Force TTF. She is also Member of the Committees on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality FEMM, Industry Research & Energy ITRE, and Artificial Intelligence AIDA.
Additionally, she is member of the Delegations of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean Substitute DMED, for relations with the Mashreq countries DMAS and for relations with the Korean Peninsula DKOR.
Previously, she had served as Minister of Tourism of Greece (2015 – 2019), and was recipient of several prestigious international awards, including “Tourism Minister of the Year 2019” in ITB Berlin, and “Global Champion 2019” for Destination Stewardship, by the World Travel & Tourism Council, WTTC.
During her long-standing political career (2004 -2019) she was elected six times as Member of the Greek Parliament in the First District of Athens. She had also been appointed Secretary to the Standing Committee on Monitoring the Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, and Member of the Greek Parliamentary Assembly at the Council of Europe, PACE.
Elena Kountoura is also President of Europa Donna Hellas, the Greek branch of the European Coalition for Breast Cancer Europa Donna, advocating for the prevention and awareness of breast cancer and for claiming rights to better services for patients with cancer.
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Shimon Parnas is a veteran and experienced radio and television program editor and presenter.
For more than 45 years has been working on the Israeli national radio and TV and on commercial TV as a musical editor and representor of entertainment programs. He started his way as an expert in rock and pop music and unacceptably around the eighties he was slowly droughted towards world music and Greek music especially.
He started to play Greek bouzouki songs on the Israeli national radio on prime time during the eighties. His programs became very popular among many listeners, and in the beginning of the nineties he edited and represented a tv show called “PARNASS TAVERN “; which was like the famous Greek tv show called STIN YGIA MAS. His programs on radio and tv became very popular and it contributed a lot to the popularity of Greek music in Israel.
In the beginning of the nineties, he started to organize music and culinary tours to Athens and Thessaloniki, and he had the privilege to be the first one to do it, because after the success many tour companies and guides started to do the same.
Mrs. Gerekou since August 2019 has been appointed, President of the Greek National Tourism Organization, by decision of the Greek Government and the Ministry for Tourism.
Angela Gerekou was born in the island of Corfu. She holds a degree from the School of Architecture of the University Of Rome, Italy. She has worked as an Architect for the Hellenic Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works, on special programs for the renovation of underdeveloped areas of Athens and she has also worked out a great number of architectural projects for the island of Corfu.
She has served the Greek Government from the positions of Deputy Minister for Culture and Tourism (2009-2010) and Deputy Minister for Culture (2014-2015). She was elected Member of the Greek Parliament, for Corfu, in the 2004, 2007, 2009 and 2012 national elections.
Angela Gerekou, also has a significant career in acting. She studied in Derek Jakoby’s “London Academy of Performing Art” in London, UK and she was a member of Federico Fellini’s student group in Italy. She held the main role in the British-Greek production “The Girl of Mani”, which was presented in the International Film Festival of Cannes. She has acted in many plays for cinema, theater and television and she has worked with many distinguished Greek directors. During the years 1987-1988, she was amongst the founding members of the “Cultural Movement for the Ionian Islands” – a cultural group whose aim was the revival of the traditional genre of the Ionian Theater, through collaborating with many notable political and cultural personalities. Since 2011 she’s President of the Board of Directors of the Ionian Cultural Center which hosts since then the Corfu Festival of Arts.
She is a volunteer participant in various social initiatives for environmental protection, youth culture and sensitive social groups. During 2005-2006 she was appointed as the National Representative on Global Progressive Forum’s campaign against AIDS. At the same time period she served as Volunteerism Sector Manager while she was an MP for PASOK political party.
She is the mother of a daughter.
She speaks Italian, English and French.
Olympia Anastasopoulou graduated with High Honors from Athens College and obtained a Law Degree from Athens University. She holds a L.L.M. in International and European Studies with a thesis on P.D.O. and G.I., as well as a M.B.A. with a major in finance and statistics.
As an attorney-at-law at the Supreme Court and Accredited Mediator with the Ministry of Justice, she has worked in Greece and abroad, whereas she has served as a legal counselor in the National Theater of Greece. Since 2010 she serves as Legal Counselor in E-EFKA.
In 2010 she was elected municipal counselor in Palaio Faliro.
In 2014 she joined the political party Potami.
In the national elections of July 2019 she ran as a parliamentary candidate in Southern Sector of Athens for New Democracy.
In January 2022 she was appointed Secretary General for Tourism Policy and Development.
She is fluent in English, French and German, married to Stefanos Adamopoulos and has two sons
He was born in Athens in 1970. He has studied Tourism and Hospitality Management, at Centre International of Glion, at Montreux Switzerland, with Diploma in Food & Beverage and Event Management.
He has a professional experience in Greek and International Hospitality Industry, in managerial positions, with expertise in Event Management and Sales.
In 2010 he has founded FYE – For Your Event Agency, with specialization in Event planning and Wedding planning to destination Greece.
In May 2020, he has participated in the foundation of Greek Destination Planners Association (GDPA) and he was elected President.
She is the Director of Corporate Communications of ThPA S.A. – Port of Thessaloniki, a Member of the Board of Directors of MedCruise (Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports) and a Member of the Board of Directors of Thessaloniki Tourism Organization.
Born in 1973 in the USA, she holds an MBA in Business Administration and has held senior managerial positions in port, shipping and financial services companies over the last 20 years, a member of the National Cruise Committee and a Board Member of a shipping company listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, as Commercial Director and as Management Consultant on Strategic Development, Sales, Marketing and Communication in the largest shipping companies in Greece, providing communication support to the Association of Shipping Companies.
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.
After an impressively successful year, Greek tourism is at the forefront of the national effort for greater economic growth and social well-being with a sustainable and environmentally friendly tourism model.
In this context, Next is Now and Dome Consulting will organize the 4th Greek Tourism Conference, a National Case! Possibilities and Prospects.
At the top of the conference agenda are:
– The further improvement of the tourist product with respect to the needs of local communities and urban tourism
-Strengthening the cooperation between the State, the regions and the private sector
– The creation of sustainable tourist infrastructures.
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