Kyriakos Mitsotakis was born in Athens in 1968. He studied Social Studies at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude, before completing a Master’s degree in International Relations at Stanford University and an MBA at Harvard Business School.

He began his career in the private sector, working abroad at top tier firms in investment banking and consulting. He was first elected to the Hellenic Parliament in 2004.

In 2016 he was elected President of Nea Demokratia. He led his party to a landslide victory three years later and won a second four-year term in 2023.

Under his leadership Greece has recovered strongly after a decade of economic crisis, it has returned to investment-grade and has secured renewed international confidence as a reliable partner in Europe and the wider world.

He has pursued an ambitious reform agenda focused on growth, fiscal stability, national security, digital transformation, energy transition, border control and civil rights. His government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic is widely recognized as one of the most effective in Europe.

He is married to Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotaki. They have three children, Sophia, Konstantinos and Daphne.