Kyriakos Mitsotakis
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis (b. March 1968 in Athens, Greece, Greek: Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης) is the son of the former Greek prime minister and honorary president of New Democracy Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Marika Giannoukou. Kyriakos has three children, Sofia, Konstantinos and Dafni. In addition to Greek, he speaks English, French and German.
He left Greece in 1968 for Paris, when he was six months old, together with his family, because his father was a persona non grata of the military junta. He returned when democracy was restored in 1974. In 1986, he was attending the American College of Athens, where, almost at the end of the year, he became president of the mathematic society.
From the years 1986 to 1990, he studied sciences at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on the other side of the Atlantic where he graduated summa com laude. He was also honored with the Hoopes prize.
Before the elections in 1989, he worked in pre-elective organization teams of the New Democracy.
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 do his military duty. His 6-month tour before returning to Athens was at Nea Agchialos 111 Combat Wing (near Volos).
Kyriakos returned to the other side of the Atlantic where he continued his studies at Stanford University from which received a Masters in the International Economic Plan. He continued the circle of studies and returned to Harvard where he was awarded with his second masters in Administrative Undertaking.
From 1995 to 1997, he went to London and went to the consultancy McKinsey & Company. He later came back to Greece where he worked at Alpha Ventures, a daughter company of Alpha Bank. He continued with the National Bank of Greece group, as Managing Director of NBG Venture Capital. From January 2000 to April 2003, he took place at the International Council at the National Enterprise Council.
The National Enterprise Council was one of the most powerful financial enterprises in both the Greek and the Balkan markets in venture capital. The National Enterprise Council had the first company which specialized functions in the chapter of the enterprise council which works with Greek companies with the high standard of technology and was the first company to explore work in the Turkish market.
In the 2004 elections, he ran as an MP with New Democracy at Athens B' electoral periphery (Β Αθηνών)(which comprises all of Athens suburbs) receiving more votes than any other New Democracy candidate in the country and was elected to the parliament.
He is the president of the Friendship team with the Finnish Parliament and member of the Friendship team with Egypt and Hungary.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis is honorary president of Konstantinos K. Mitsotakis Foundation, aiming at promoting the life and works of Konstantinos Mitsotakis and at reporting the modern political history of Greece.
