Speaker

Pavlos Yeroulanos was born in Athens in 1966. He studied history at Williams College. In 1994 he received master's degrees from Harvard University's Department of Public Administration and from MIT University's Department of Business Administration. He worked at Kefalonia Fisheries, as Financial Director and head of the company’s restructuring plan, from 1994 until 1998. From 1994 until 2004, he served as special advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, George Papandreou, in matters of organization and coordination, and as General Secretary of Greek Diaspora. In January 2006, he became the Director of the political office of the President of PASOK, George Papandreou, until the 8th party congress. He was the head of the party’s Communications committee from 2008 and was Campaign Director for the 2009 European & National elections. He served as Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Sport from 2009 until 2012. In 2019 he ran for mayor of Athens. In 2021 he was a candidate for President of PASOK. From 2022 he is the head of the party’s Tourism committee. In May 2023 he was elected a Member of Parliament in the Athens A’ prefecture. In June 2023 he was re-elected. He speaks Greek, English, and French. He is married to Ms. Lara Barazi-Yeroulanos and has two daughters, Tatiana and Alexandra.