He was born in 1959 in Athens. He is an economist. Member of Parliament for New Democracy (2022-2023). Minister of Environment and Energy since June 2023. Deputy Minister of Finance, responsible for Fiscal Policy and coordinating the preparation and implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” (2020-2023). Deputy Minister of Fiscal Policy (2019-2020), Member of the European Parliament (2009-2014), General Secretary of International Economic Relations and Development Cooperation (2006-2009), Municipal Councilor, Deputy Mayor, and Vice Mayor of Athens (2003 – 2006), responsible for preparing the 2004 Olympic Games. From 1990 to 1993, he served as Advisor to Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Head of the Prime Minister’s Office of Planning and Communication.

Additionally, he served as President and General Manager of the Research Center E21 (1994-2001). He was the last President of Drasi (2014-2019), which suspended its activities to support New Democracy.

He has worked in advertising and communication since 1985 and has founded four companies in the fields of communication (1994-1999), crisis management (2000-2006), and agricultural production & processing (2014-2019).

He studied economics in Greece (Athens University of Economics and Business) and business administration (MBA) in the UK (City University, London), and received a postgraduate diploma from the British Market Research Society in Market Research. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens, with a thesis on “Social Tolerance to Corruption.”

He is married to Eleni Papapanou, and has two daughters, Marianna and Irini, and four grandchildren.