Christoforos Vernardakis

Christoforos Vernardakis (Greek: Χριστόφορος Βερναρδάκης) is a Greek academic who served as a Minister of State in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, from 2016 to 2019. From 2015 to 2016, he served as Alternate Minister of Administrative Reform in the same Cabinet. He is an MP for Athens A constituency.

Christoforos Vernardakis
Χριστόφορος Βερναρδάκης
Minister of State for Government Coordination
In office
5 November 2016 – 9 July 2019
Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras
Preceded bynone (new post)
Succeeded bynone (post abolished)
Alternate Minister of Administrative Reform
In office
17 July 2015 – 20 August 2015
Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras
In office
23 September 2015 – 5 November 2016
Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens A
Assumed office
19 November 2015
Personal details
Political partySyriza
Alma materNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Websitewww.vernardakis.gr

Biography

Vernardakis studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and graduated with a BA in political science, and afterwards studied in France, taking diplomas at the Sorbonne before returning to the University of Athens to take his PhD in 1995. In 1993, he founded the polling organisation VPRC, and became its president in 2004. After a term as a lecturer at the University of Crete (2004-2009), he became an assistant professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the January 2015 Greek legislative election he stood election for Athens A and was seated with Syriza without election.[1]

References
  1. Staff writer(s) (17 July 2015). "Ποιος είναι ο νέος αναπληρωτής υπουργός Διοικητικής Ανασυγκρότησης Χρ. Βερναρδάκης" [Who is the New Alternate Minister of Administrative Reform Chr. Vernardakis?]. Matrix24.gr (in Greek). Athens. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
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