Christoforos Vernardakis

Christoforos Vernardakis
MP
Χριστόφορος Βερναρδάκης
Alternate Minister of Administrative Reform
Assumed office
2015
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens A
Assumed office
2015
Personal details
Political party Syriza
Alma mater National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Website www.vernardakis.gr

Christoforos Vernardakis (Greek: Χριστόφορος Βερναρδάκης) is a Greek academic currently serving as Alternate Minister of Administrative Reform in the Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. He is an MP for Athens A constituency.

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]

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