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Studies - Profession
Doctor; Neurologist-Psychiatrist, Faculty of Medicine, University of Athens
Ministerial Position
1990 - 1991
- Minister of Health, Welfare and Social Security
March 2004 - present
Parliamentary Activities
European Parliament
1984 - 1990
- Member of the European Parliament
- Chairman of the Inquiry Committee on the Drugs problem in the Member States
- Vice President of the Committee on Women's right
- Member of the Committee on Social Affairs and Employment, of the Committee on Transport, of the Committee on Budgetary Control and of the Committee of Economic, Monetary and Industrial Policy
- Member of the Delegation of the European Parliament for relations with the countries in Latin America and rapporteur on the Latin American drug traffic
- Head of the Nea Demokratia Party Delegation to the European Parliament
June 1999 - September 2000
- Member of the European Parliament
- Head of the Nea Demokratia Party Delegation to the European Parliament.
- Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence
- Policy and of the Committee on Citizens Freedom and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs
- Member of the Interparliamentary Delegation "European Union - Turkey"
- Chairman of the Parliamentary European Committee "Fourth World"
Hellenic (National) Parliament
1993 - 1996 and 1996 - 1999
- Member of the National Parliament (Athens A’ Constituency)
- Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, of the Committee on European Affairs, of the Committee on Social Affairs and of the Committee for Women's rights. Vice-president of the Parliamentary Committee on the examination of the drugs problem, of the Parliamentary Committee on the examination of the reform system and of the living conditions of prisoners.
2000 - 2004
- Re-elected member of the National Parliament (Athens A’ Constituency).
- Vice President of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and of the interparty Parliamentary Committee on the examination of the drugs problem.
- Chairman of the Greek Friendship Group between the Parliament of Greece and Poland and member of the Greek Friendship Groups between the Parliaments of Greece and U.S.A. and of Greece and Morocco.
2002 - 2003
- Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe, representing the Hellenic Parliament
March 2004
- Re-elected member of the National Parliament (Athens A’ Constituency).
Party Activities
ONNED (Nea Demokratia Youth Organisation)
1974
1975
- General Secretary for International Relations
1977
- Member of the Executive Committee
NEA Demokratia Party
1979
- Member of the Central Committee
1981
- Advisor to the President of Nea Demokratia on organisational matters
1992 - 1998
- Secretary for International and European Affairs
1997 - present
- Member of the Central Committee
1998 - 2000
- Member of the Executive Committee
2000 - 2001
- Head of the Nea Democratia Party Labour and Social Welfare Affairs section
2001
- Member of the E’ Congress' Organisational Committee. Responsible for the Party’s Statue and for the Press and Communication
2001 - 2003
- Member of the Political Council
2004 - present
- Member of the Political Council
2004 - present
- Member of the Central Committee
International Political Organisations
1989 - 2000
- Member of the Political Bureau of PPE (European People's Party)
1986 - 1994
- Member of the Executive Committee of the European Union of Women (UEF).
1992 - 2000
- Vice-president of UEDC (European Christian Democratic Union
- Representative of Nea Demokratia at the Political Bureau of IDC (Christian Democrat (International), of UEDC (European Christian
- Democratic Union) and PPE (European People's Party)
- Member of the Steering Committee of EDU (European Democrat Union)
- Member of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Group of the
- European People's Party and European Democrats
Other Activities
1990 - 1992
- National Co-ordinator at the CELAD Committee (European Commission of Combating Drugs)
1992 - 2004
- National Co-ordinator and Member of the Horizontal
- Working Party on Drugs of the Council of the European Union
- Chairman of the Balkans/Middle East Regional Group of the
- Dublin Group of the Council of the European Union
Medals - International Distinctions
- Honored by the Republic of Chile for her contribution to the re-establishment of democracy, with the ultimate medal of the Republic of Chile “Bernando O’ Higgins“.
- Honored by the Republic of Poland, for her contribution, as Chairman of the Greek Friendship Group between the Parliament of Greece and Poland, to the integration of Poland in the E.U, with the Commander’s Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
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