Speaker

Alexis Kalokairinos

Mayor of the Municipality of Heraklion

He was born in 1964 in Heraklion and studied in Athens and Paris. He is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Crete. He has published a number of scientific studies, articles and books, while for a number of years he wrote articles in newspapers of a pan-Hellenic scope. For the last 30 years, he has been active, on a voluntary basis, in the A. & M. Kalokairinos Foundations and the Society of Cretan Historical Studies / Historical Museum of Crete (EKIM), and is the initiator of the "Social Space" of Kalokairino Foundations, which deals with the multifaceted support of people in vital need.