Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou is an economist and an attorney-at-law.
She is currently a Member of the European Parliament affiliated to the European People’s Party, Vice-Chair of the Committee on International Trade and the Spokesperson of the Delegation of Nea Demokratia in the European Parliament.
She is also member, inter alia, of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
She is President of the inter-parliamentary group Transatlantic Friends of Israel.
She was formerly a member of the Hellenic Parliament and spokesperson for the New Democracy Party. She has also served as Deputy Mayor of the City of Ioannina in NW Greece.
She worked for several years as an attorney in the USA, specializing in financial transactions and international banking law, as an external expert for the European Commission, and as a manager in consulting companies in Brussels and Luxembourg.
She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the think tank Friends of Europe and of the Hellenic American University.