Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been Prime Minister of Greece since July 2019, winning a second term in 2023 with an increased majority. Born in Athens in 1968, he is the son of Konstantinos Mitsotakis, prime minister from 1990 to 1993, and the brother of Dora Bakoyannis, a former foreign minister — one of the political families that has dominated Greek politics for generations. He studied social studies at Harvard, took an MBA at Harvard Business School and a degree at Stanford, and worked as a McKinsey consultant and in banking and venture capital before entering parliament for New Democracy in 2004. As minister for administrative reform from 2013 he oversaw public-sector redundancies required under the bailout terms, an unpopular brief. He won the party leadership in 2016 as an outsider candidate against the establishment favourite, and defeated Alexis Tsipras in 2019 on a platform of tax cuts, investment and lower unemployment, after a decade in which Greek output had fallen by about a quarter. In office he cut corporate and property taxes, digitised public administration through the gov.gr platform, and oversaw a return to investment-grade credit ratings in 2023 and growth above the eurozone average. He legalised same-sex marriage and adoption in February 2024, the first Orthodox-majority country to do so, passing it with opposition votes against resistance from the Church and part of his own party. His record on migration has drawn sustained criticism, including credible reporting of pushbacks in the Aegean. A wiretapping scandal in 2022 involving the national intelligence service and Predator spyware reached his own office, and the Tempi rail disaster of 2023, which killed fifty-seven, provoked mass protests over state neglect. He was re-elected in June 2023 after an inconclusive May vote, under a revised law granting the winning party bonus seats.
- Lived: 1968 CE – ?
- Nationality: Greek
- Roles: Prime Minister of Greece (2019-present)
