Per Constituency (electoral district)
Dimitrios Konstantinou Kairidis
Member of Parliament Athens B1 Constituency (North)
Personal Info
- Place and Date οf Birth:
- Kavala, 1969.
- Marital Status:
- Married with two children.
- Profession:
- Professor of International Relations.
- Studies:
- J.D. (Law Degree), Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1991
M.A.L.D., The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 1994
Ph.D. in International Relations, The Fletcher School, 1998
- Foreign Languages:
- Fluency in English, French and Greek. Reading Capability in German, Italian and Turkish.
Parliamentary Activities
First elected in July 2019, he is a Member of Parliament with the New Democracy party, representing Athens-North, and the Parliamentary
Party Spokesperson of New Democracy. Currently he serves as Alternate Head of the Greek delegation to NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly,
where he previously served as Head of the delegation, and Vice-Chairman of the Standing Parliamentary Committee on National Defense and
Foreign Affairs. He is also member of the Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice, the Special Standing
Committee on European Affairs, the Special Standing Committee on Armament Programs and Contracts and of the Greece – India, Greece –
Israel, and Greece – USA Parliamentary Friendship Groups.
During the 17th Term (2019-2023) he was a Member of the Standing Committee on Production and Trade, Vice President of the Committee
on European Affairs, Member of the Greek delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Vice President - Committee on
Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Representative of the Hellenic Parliament to the Conference on the Future of Europe and Co-Chairman of
the CoFoE Working Group “Migration,” Member of the Special Permanent Committee on monitoring the decisions of the European Court of
Human Rights.
He was also a member of the Interparty Parliamentary Committee for the Development of Thrace, Head of the Working Group on
Development Issues, Member of the 3+1 cross- parliamentary committee (Greece, Israel, Cyprus, and the United States), President of the
Greece – Israel parliamentary Friendship Group, Member of the Greece – Albania parliamentary Friendship Group, Member of the Greece –
USA parliamentary Friendship Group, Member of the Standing Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs from 2.10.2020 to
10.10.2021
Political/Social Activities
Minister of Migration and Asylum from June 27, 2023 to June 14, 2024
Professor of International Politics at Panteion University of Athens, Greece since 2012
Senior Research Associate at the Constantine G. Karamanlis Foundation, Athens Greece since 2007
Director of the Navarino Network, Thessaloniki, Greece 2009 – 2019
Professor of International Relations, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece 2001 – 2012
Constantine Karamanlis Associate Professor in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies, Fletcher
School, Tufts University, 2005-2007
Lecturer at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1999-2001
Director of the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, 1996-2001
Research Associate, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, USA, 1994-1996.