Stavros Dimas ( Greek Σταύρος Δήμας , April 30, 1941, Athens) - Greek politician, European Commissioner for Environmental Protection of the first commission of Barroso in 2004 - 2009 . From November 2011 to May 2012 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece .
| Stavros Dimas |
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| Greek Σταύρος Δήμας |
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| Deputy Minister of Economic Coordination |
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| 1977 - 1980 |
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| Minister of Commerce |
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| 1980 - 1981 |
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| Minister of Agriculture |
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| 1989 - 1990 |
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| Minister of Industry, Energy and Technology |
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| 1990 - 1991 |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece |
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| November 2011 - May 2012 |
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| Head of the government | Lucas Papadimos |
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| Predecessor | Stavros Lambrinidis |
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| Successor | Petros Moliviatis |
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| Birth | April 30, 1941 ( 1941-04-30 ) (78 years old)
Athens |
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| The consignment | New Democracy |
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| Education | University of Athens , New York University |
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| Website | Official page |
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Stavros Dimas was born in 1941 in Athens, although his family comes from Kenya in Corinth. He studied law and economics at the University of Athens . He received a master’s degree from the University of New York . In 1969 he began working as a lawyer for the company on Wall Street , but the next year he moved to the World Bank .
In 1975, he returned to Greece to take the post of Deputy Governor of the Greek Industrial Development Bank [1] . In 1977, he took an active part in Greek politics as a member of the conservative political party New Democracy [2] . Since then, he has been elected a member of the Greek Parliament ten times in a row. From the very beginning, he was involved in negotiations on Greece's accession to the European Union.
In 2014, he was a candidate of the ruling parties for the presidency, but did not get a qualified majority of votes of members of parliament.
