Kypros Chrysostomides

Who is Kypros Chrysostomides?

Kypros Chrysostomides is a Cypriot politician, member of Cyprus Parliament. He was born in the village of Kathikas in Paphos in July 1942. He graduated from the Paphos Gymnasium.

He studied Law at the University of Athens on a scholarship granted by the Greek Government. He continued his studies at the Luxembourg Law School, again on a scholarship, where he studied Comparative Law.

On a further scholarship granted by the German Government, he pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Bonn where he obtained his Doctorate in Law. The area of his specialisation was Business Law. Thereafter, he worked as a scientific assistant to the Professor of Private International Law at the University of Bonn and he continued his studies in England.

For four years Kypros Chrysostomides worked with the European Commission of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. During his term at the European Commission, he participated in the Commission’s investigation of the accusations against the Greek Junta for violations of human rights.

In 1973 he returned to Cyprus and began practising law in Nicosia. He married lawyer Eleni G. Polyviou in 1974. They have two daughters, Daphne and Georgia. From 1981 until his appointment as Government Spokesman in 2003, he practised law from his own law firm in Nicosia. From 2003, when Tassos Papadopoulos became President of Cyprus, he was the Government Spokesman until 2006.