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Niki Konstantinou Kerameus

Minister of Labour and Social Security of the Hellenic Republic

Member of Parliament Athens B1 Constituency (North)

Personal Info

Place and Date οf Birth:

Thessaloniki, 18th July 1980

Marital Status:

She is married to lawyer Dimitris Loukas, and together they have two sons, Loukas and Konstantinos.

Profession:

She is a lawyer and a member of both the Athens Bar Association and the New York Bar Association. From 2004 to 2019, she practiced law in Athens and New York, mainly focusing on civil law and arbitration, until she assumed the position of Minister of Education and Religious Affairs.

Studies:

She holds a law degree from the Panthéon-Assas University Paris II with a specialization in international law, a master’s degree in private international law and arbitration from the same university, and an LL.M. focused on international arbitration from Harvard Law School. During her postgraduate studies in France, she worked as a teaching assistant at the Panthéon-Assas University Paris II, teaching first-year law students.

Foreign Languages:

Greek (native), English, French, German (basic knowledge)

Parliamentary Activities

• On July 14, 2024, she assumed the position of Minister of Labour and Social Security of the Hellenic Republic.
• Previously, she served as Minister of the Interior of the Hellenic Republic from 2023 to 2024. During her term, postal voting was introduced for the first time in the history of Greece and a new framework for the selection and evaluation of public body executives was established.
• From 2019 to 2023, as Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, she worked systematically to improve the quality of education at all levels, particularly under the challenging circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key reforms during her tenure include the extension of compulsory preschool education by one year, starting from the age of 4, the introduction of English and Robotics from kindergarten, the implementation of courses focused on the development of skills (e.g. critical thinking, empathy) for ages 4 to 15, the evaluation of teachers, educators and education executives, the strengthening of public university extroversion and internationalization through partnerships with leading institutions abroad, and the overall upgrade of vocational education and training.
• Since 2015, she has been an elected Member of the Hellenic Parliament with the New Democracy Party, originally for the State Constituency and, since 2019, representing the Athens B1 Constituency (North).
• Her roles within the party include serving as Responsible for the Administrative Reform and E- Government Sector from March 2015 to January 2016, Parliamentary Spokesperson from January 2016 to November 2016, and Head of the Education, Research and Religious Affairs Sector from November 2016 to July 2019. She has played an important role in shaping the New Democracy Party’s policy proposals, particularly relating to a comprehensive education program and curriculum, voting rights for Greeks living abroad, improvements of the organ and tissue donation system and the constitutional amendment proposals.

Political/Social Activities

She is a founding member and the first President of the non-profit foundation Desmos. While working in New York, she was awarded for her pro bono work, providing free legal services to New York homeless groups.

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