Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Hellenic Republic
Christos Dimas is a lawyer and a Member of the Hellenic Parliament with Nea Demokratia, representing the district of Corinthia. He was born on 29 May 1980. He graduated from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as from Queen Mary University of London. He obtained his Master’s degree in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
He also completed his PhD in European Politics from LSE, with a scholarship from the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. The title of his PhD thesis is: “National institutional contexts and domestic discourse during proposed transformative policy change. The case of the telecoms’ privatization in Greece and the Republic of Ireland.”
In parallel to his studies, he worked as a London correspondent for the newspaper “Apogevmatini” and did a journalism internship at the BBC.
At the age of 25, he was an assistant lecturer at LSE, teaching first-year students the course “Introduction to Comparative Politics”. He has also taught the course “Mass Media and Social Regulation” at ICON College, University of Leicester to postgraduate students and was a research fellow at the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence. He has scientific publications in Greek and international scientific journals.
Before entering politics, he worked in the private sector as a business consultant for “The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)”, a strategic consulting firm.
He was elected as Member of Hellenic Parliament for Corinthia with New Democracy in the May and June 2012 elections, and has been continuously elected since then.
In his spare time, he plays football and basketball, and reads history books.
He is married to lawyer Nikoleta Syrengela and they have a daughter, Alkisti – Stefania and a son, Stavros – Konstantinos.
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