Konstantinos Karamanlis
Konstantinos Karamanlis was born in Athens in 1956. He is a Greek politician and Lawyer.
Political Career[edit]
He was elected as MP (ND) for Thessaloniki in the general elections of 1989 (June and November), 1990, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2009. Additionally he was also elected as secretary of the Presidium of Parliament in 1989 and re-elected in November of the same year. He was a former member of the Greek parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe.
Education Career[edit]
He studied Law, at the University of Athens, Economics at Deree College and he completed his MA in Economics and Political Science, at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He then did a Ph.D. in Diplomatic History, at Tufts University, Boston. He speaks German, English and French.
Notable Work[edit]
He was elected in the ND Party as Chairman on 21-03-1997 at the 4th Party conference and he was a board member of the Union of Law Students (1976-1978). He was active in ONNED (the ND youth organisation) and ND (1974-1979). He was a member of the Organisational and Ideological Section (1984-1989) and served his national service in the Hellenic Navy (1977-1979). He practised law (1984–1989) and taught Political Science, Diplomatic History, and Company Law at Deree College, Athens, and on the “Study in Greece” student exchange programme (1983-1989). He was founding member and chairman of the KIPAEA peace movement and “EuropeΆ 92” -the Greek Centre for the Promotion of European Integration. He was member of the ND Central Committee since 1993 and Co-author of the book (in Greek): Eleftherios Venizelos and Greek Foreign Relations (1928-1932). In 1987, he edited and prefaced The Spirit and Era of Gorbachev and Imperialism: The Case of Angola. He also contributed to a collective volume-European Unification and Balkan Fragmentation: the Role of Greece, with a study entitled “Post-Communist Unrest in South–Eastern Europe”. He is a regular contributor to the weekly magazine Oikonomikos Tachydromos (΅Economic Post”) (1987-1989).
