Evangelos Venizelos (born in 1957, in Thessaloniki) is a former Deputy Prime Minister
(2011 - 2015) and former President of PASOK (2012 - 2015). He was a governmental partner
of the 2012 - 2015 coalition government (also known as the Samaras-Venizelos
government)
Between 1993 and 2015, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finance, National Defence, Development, Culture, Justice, Transport, Press and Mass Media.
As Minister of Finance, he managed, among other things, the write-down and restructuring of the Greek public debt.
A member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1993 to 2019, he has been elected ten times as a
member of parliament for the first electoral constituency of Thessaloniki.
He was the majority party Rapporteur General in the extensive amendment of the Greek
Constitution in 2001.
He was the minister responsible for coordinating the country's preparations for the 2004 Olympics.
As a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, he served as
rapporteur for monitoring the implementation of the decisions of the European Court of
Human Rights in the 46 member countries. In 2022 he was appointed a member and elected rapporteur of the seven-member high - level reflection group on the future of the Council of Europe.
As Minister of Foreign Affairs, he chaired the work of the General Affairs Council of the
European Union during the Greek Presidency in the first half of 2014, and the Council
meetings in which he participated during the Greek Presidencies of 1994 and 2003.
Evangelos Venizelos is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Law School of the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki since 1984. A detailed CV and a list of his scientific publications
is available at www.evenizelos.gr
He is an attorney at law in the supreme courts.
In 2016, he founded the think tank “Kyklos Ideon” (Circle of Ideas).
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