MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD

KONSTANTINOS TSIARAS

Kostas Tsiaras was born in Karditsa in 1966.

• He is a Microbiologist-Biopathologist with a PhD from Athens University Medical School, with post-graduate studies in in-vitro fertilization at Swedish university centers.
• In 2004 he was elected for the first time as a New Democracy Member of Parliament for Karditsa.
• He was re-elected in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2019.
• From July 2012 to June 2013 he was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister.
• In July 2013 he was elected Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense and Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament.
• In January 2016 he was elected General Secretary of the Parliamentary Group of New Democracy.
• In July 2019 he was appointed Minister of Justice.
• In June 2023 he was appointed Parliamentary Representative of ND and in June 2024 he was appointed Minister of Rural Development and Food.
• He is married to Aggeliki Stergiouli, molecular biologist, and they have a son and two daughters.