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Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy

He was born in 1968 in Athens. He studied Biochemical Engineering at the University of Wales and holds two master degrees, from the University of London and City University Business School, specializing in Biochemical Engineering and Business Administration accordingly. He worked at the transnational European Agency for Eurocontrol which oversees air traffic and flight safety across Europe. Upon his return in Greece, he ran a family business. He speaks English and French. He is a member of the Alumni Association of Biochemical Engineering University of London and the City University Business School. He is married to Cypriot businesswoman Aphrodite Doritis.

In the elections of 2004, he was for the first time elected in Lasithi electoral district as a Member of Parliament with New Democracy Party. He was re-elected in the 2007, 2009, May and June 2012 elections, the January and September 2015 elections, as well as in the July 2019 elections.

He was Deputy Minister of National Defense (2007-2009) and Deputy Minister of Labor, Social Security and Welfare (2014-2015). From the 23^rd of November 2015 until the 10^th of January 2016 he assumed the duties of President of New Democracy Party.

In 9 July 2019, he was appointed Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy.

Angelos (Evangelos) Syrigos is an Associate Professor of International Law and Foreign Policy at the Department of International and European Studies at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.

He was born in 1966 in Athens. He is a graduate of the Law Schools of the National University of Athens and of the University of Bristol, England, where in 1994 he was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the field of public international law.

He has worked as Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (1993-1994), as Legal Expert to the Council of Europe and as member of the Law Bar of Athens and practicing lawyer in Athens.

He has served as Secretary General of Population and Social Cohesion of the Greek Ministry of Interior (August 2012 and May 2015) and Secretary for Intercultural Education and Greek Studies Abroad of the Greek Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs (2007-2009).

He has served in positions of high management responsibility for foreign policy issues on minorities, transparency and telecommunications.

He was awarded in 1992 by the Academy of Athens for his work on the delimitation of the continental shelf.

During his military service, he was honored with Praise by the 4th Corps in Thrace for services to the minority of Thrace and with Honorable Mention by the Army General Staff for his contribution to the creation of the Pomak-Greek dictionary.

He has published books on Greek-Turkish relations, the Cyprus issue, the Prespa Agreement.

On July 7, 2019 he was elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament. He was sworn in as Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs in charge of higher education issues on January 5, 2021. He has served as a member of the Standing Parliamentary Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs, the Special Standing Committee on European Affairs, as well as the Greek Delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA).

He is married to Irini Stamatoudi and they have three children.

Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Mohina has over 30 years of experience in the Egyptian Electricity and Renewable Energy Sector. He is currently First Undersecretary for Research, Planning and Authorities’ Follow up. He has held senior positions such as Undersecretary for Authorities’ Follow up, General Manager for Technical Follow Up and General Manager for Minister’s Technical Office.

In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Egyptian New and Renewable Energy Authority. He is a member of the Energy Committee in ESCWA. Also, He was a Secretary of IEC National Committee of Egypt.

He participated in several national committees for the preparation of strategies, policies and legislation, such as Egypt’s strategy for sustainable development 2030, The Egyptian integrated sustainable energy strategy for 2035, and preparation of Egyptian Electricity Law and the incentives for renewable energy investment Law.

He has wide responsibilities include overview the whole sector requirements and performance, Power system expansion plans and the required adjustments, investments for the projects implementation, coordination with international financing institutions, cooperation with other countries, etc

He represented Egypt in many international and regional conferences as well as He was a head of some energy meetings.

Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Mohina holds a PhD degree in Electrical Energy Economics, a master degree in public administration and a bachelor degree in electrical engineering.

Dr. Athanasios Dagoumas is an Assistant Professor in Energy and Resource Economics
and Director of the Energy and Environmental Policy laboratory at the University of
Piraeus. He holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle
University in Thessaloniki, where he elaborated his PhD in Energy Economics. He is
Member of the Board of the Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in Economics. He has
more than 15 years of work and research experience in energy related issues, including
working as a Senior Researcher at the University of Cambridge and as a Senior Energy
Analyst at the Transmission System Operator and at the Electricity Market Operator in
Greece. Moreover he was enrolled as a Special Advisor to the Ministry of Environment,
Energy and Climate Change in Greece. His extensive experience builds his capacity for an
in-depth understanding of multidisciplinary aspects of the energy sector: economic,
engineering, environmental and policy. He is keen on developing models for the energy
system, the economic-energy-environment (E3) systems and the real energy markets. He
has been President to the Regulatory Authority for Energy since July 2020.

Geoffrey R. Pyatt, a career member of the Foreign Service, class of
Career Minister, was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic
Republic in September 2016.He served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine from
2013-2016, receiving the State Department’s Robert Frasure Memorial
Award in recognition of his commitment to peace and alleviation of human
suffering in eastern Ukraine. Previously, Ambassador Pyatt was Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of South and Central
Asian Affairs from 2010-2013. He was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S.
Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna, Austria from 2007
to 2010. He also served at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India as
Deputy Chief of Mission from 2006 to 2007 and as Political Counselor
from 2002 to 2006. Ambassador Pyatt served as Economic Officer at the
U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong from 1999 to 2002 and as Principal
Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Lahore, Pakistan from 1997 to
1999. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1989, he has also served on
the National Security Council staff, on the staff of Deputy Secretary
Strobe Talbott and at posts in Honduras and India. Prior to joining the
Foreign Service, he worked with The Inter-American Dialogue, a
Washington-based think tank that brings together leading citizens of the
Americas. Ambassador Pyatt grew up in La Jolla, California and holds a
Master’s degree in International Relations from Yale and B.A. in
Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.