Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Who is Kyriakos Mitsotakis?

Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a Greek politician of the conservative New Democracy party.

Born in Athens, he is the son of the former Greek prime minister and honorary president of the New Democracy political party, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and Marika Mitsotakis. Kyriakos has three children, Sofia, Konstantinos and Dafni. In addition to Greek, he speaks English, French and German.

He left Greece in 1968 for Paris, when he was six months old, along with his family, because his father was a persona non grata of the Greek military junta. He returned when democracy was restored in 1974. In 1986, he was attending the Athens College, where, almost at the end of the year, he became president of his class.

From 1986 to 1990, he studied sciences at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the U.S. where he graduated summa com laude. He was also honoured with the Hoopes prize.

Before the 2000 elections, he worked in pre-elective organization teams of the New Democracy.

He worked as an economic analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank from 1990 to 1991 in London. He later returned to Greece and went to the Hellenic Air Force to do his military duty. His six-month tour before returning to Athens was at Nea Agchialos 111 Combat Wing.