| Giorgos Kaminis Γιώργος Καμίνης |
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| Mayor of Athens | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office December 29, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Nikitas Kaklamanis |
| Greek Ombudsman | |
| In office April 23, 2003[1] – September, 2010[2] |
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| Preceded by | Nikiforos Diamandouros |
| Succeeded by | Kalliopi Spanou[2] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 15, 1954 New York, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Athens Paris II Paris I |
| Occupation | Law professor, Public servant |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Atheist |
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| Website | gkaminis.gr |
Georgios Kaminis (Greek: Γεώργιος Καμίνης, born 15 July 1954) is an American Greek professor of constitutional law, and mayor of Athens since December 29 2010. He was the Greek Ombudsman from April 2003 until September 2010.
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Giorgos Kaminis was born in New York,[3] where his father, Vasilis Kaminis was working at the time. He took the American citizenship, that holds until today along with the Greek. At the age of five he left New York and came to Athens.[4]
He studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens, graduating in 1980. He made postgraduate studies in Public Law, at Universite de Paris II, gaining a DEA in 1982, followed by the Universite de Paris I, where he obtained a Doctorat d'Etat en Droit in 1989.[5]
In November 1982, he was hired as a research and teaching fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens. He was elected a lecturer in 1991 and an assistant professor in 1998.[5][1]
From September 1989, he has been a research fellow at the Department of Parliamentary Studies and Research of the Directorate of Studies of the Greek Parliament.[5]
Αfter serving as a Deputy Ombudsman for Human Rights, from 1998 to 2003,[5] he served as the Greek Ombudsman from April 2003 until his resignation in September 2010, to run on the oncoming local elections.[2]
Kaminis was elected Mayor of Athens after the second round of the Greek local elections of 2010.[6] Kaminis, who ran as an independent,[7] had been nominated by the small, newly formed Democratic Left party and was also backed by the country's ruling Pasok Party, the Ecologist Greens party, and Portokali (Drasi and Liberal Alliance).[4][8] In the second round of voting he got 52% of the vote and defeated Nikitas Kaklamanis, the rightwing incumbent supported by New Democracy that lost control of the capital, historically a conservative stronghold, for the first time in more than two decades.[9]
Kaminis is married to Adamantia Anagnostou, a lecturer at the University of Macedonia. They have two daughters, Angeliki and Katerina-Markella.[4]
| Preceded by Nikiforos Diamandouros |
Greek Ombudsman 2003–2010 |
Succeeded by Kalliopi Spanou |
| Preceded by Nikitas Kaklamanis |
Mayor of Athens 2011– |
Succeeded by Incumbent |