Markos Kyprianou

Markos Kyprianou Μάρκος Κυπριανού
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus
In office 3 March 2008 – 19 July 2011
President	Dimitris Christofias
Preceded by	Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis
European Commissioner for Health
In office 1 January 2007 – 3 March 2008
President	José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by	Himself (Health and Consumer Protection)
Succeeded by	Androulla Vassiliou
European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection
In office 22 November 2004 – 1 January 2007
President	José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by	Pavel Telička
Succeeded by	Himself (Health) Meglena Kuneva (Consumer Protection)
European Commissioner for the Budget
In office 1 May 2004 – 22 November 2004 Serving with Michaele Schreyer
President	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Michaele Schreyer
Succeeded by	Dalia Grybauskaitė (Financial Programming and the Budget)
Personal details
Born	(1960-01-22) 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, pronounced [ˈmarkos cipriaˈnu]) (born 22 January 1960 in Limassol) is a Cypriot politician who served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs until his official resignation in 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.^[1][2][3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[6] Markos Kyprianou was officially charged on 24 January 2012, together with seven other persons, ^[7]by the Attorney General of the Republic of Cyprus in relation to the Mari blast.

Professional C.V.

• since 1985 practising law
• 1985-1991 associate with the law firm of Antis Triantafyllides & Sons
• 1991–1995 partner with the law firm of Kyprianou & Boyiadjis
• 1995– 2003 partner with the law firm of George L. Savvides & Co (merged with Kyprianou & Boyiadjis)

Political C.V.

• 1986–1991 Municipal Councillor for the City of Nicosia
• 1993–1997 President of the Youth Organisation of the Democratic Party
• since 1986 Member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party (DIKO)
• since 1990 Member of the Political Committee of the Party
• 1993–1998 and 2001 Member of the Executive Bureau of the Party
• 1991–2003 Member of the House of Representatives for the Nicosia District
• 1999–2003 Chairman of the House Committee on Financial and Budgetary Affairs
• 1 March 2003 – 30 April 2004 Minister of Finance
• since 1 May 2004 Member of the European Commission, since November 2004 responsible for Health and Consumer Protection

Memberships

• American Bar Association (associate member)
• Harvard Law School Association of Europe
• International Bar Association
• Cyprus Red Cross Society

References

External links

• Official website

v t e Barroso Commission I (2004–2009) Joaquín Almunia Catherine Ashton6 José Manuel Barroso1 Jacques Barrot2 Joe Borg Karel De Gucht9 Stavros Dimas Benita Ferrero-Waldner Ján Figeľ10 Franco Frattini2, 5 Mariann Fischer Boel Dalia Grybauskaitė7 Danuta Hübner8 Siim Kallas2 László Kovács Neelie Kroes Meglena Kuneva3 Markos Kyprianou4 Peter Mandelson6 Charlie McCreevy Louis Michel9 Leonard Orban3 Andris Piebalgs Janez Potočnik Viviane Reding Olli Rehn Paweł Samecki8 Maroš Šefčovič10 Algirdas Šemeta7 Vladimír Špidla Antonio Tajani2, 5 Androulla Vassiliou4 Günter Verheugen2 Margot Wallström2 1 = President. 2 = Vice President. 3 = Served from 1 January 2007. 4 = Vassiliou replaced Kyprianou on 3 March 2008. 5 = Tajani replaced Frattini on 18 June 2008. 6 = Ashton replaced Mandelson on 3 October 2008. 7 = Šemeta replaced Grybauskaitė on 1 July 2009. 8 = Samecki replaced Hübner on 4 July 2009. 9 = De Gucht replaced Michel on 17 July 2009. 10 = Šefčovič replaced Figeľ on 1 October 2009.