• Served as President of the Special Permanent Committee on Equality, Youth and Human Rights and • Of the Subcommittee for people with disabilities and • Of the Subcommittee against Human Trafficking • Served as Member of the Standing Committee on Economic Affairs • Served as Member of the Economic, Commercial, Technological and Environmental Affairs Committee of Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation –PABSEC. • Elected Member of the Hellenic Parliament (from 2004) • Served as Parliamentary Spokeswoman of the New Democracy Party (2012 until June 2014) • Served as Secretary of the Parliamentary Committees for National Defense, Foreign Affairs, Macedonia-Thrace and Aegean regions. • Served as Delegate of the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe –OSCE.
Σπουδές: Νομική Σχολή Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (Τμήμα Δημοσίου Δικαίου και Πολιτικών Επιστημών). Υπότροφος του Κρατικού Ιδρύματος Υποτροφιών.
Ξένες Γλώσσες: Αγγλικά, Ιταλικά, Γαλλικά. Απόφοιτος (και υπότροφος) της Ιταλικής Σχολής Αθηνών. Δίπλωμα ειδικότητας στην Ιταλική Γλώσσα και Λογοτεχνία.
Education:• Athens University Law School (Public Law and Political Science –Section) scholar and graduate. • Athens Italian School, Italian Language and Literature, scholar and graduate, Diploma.
Language Skills:: Διεθνής Πολιτική, έρευνα, συνεντεύξεις, αναλύσεις και ρεπορτάζ.
• English, Italian, French
Professional career:
• Journalist with long career in daily newspapers and magazines. • Editor-in-chief in daily newspapers as well as radio and television programs. • Fields of expertise: International Politics, research, interviews, analysis and reporting. • Director of the “Eleftheri Zoni” (Free Zone) daily web newspaper (2010 until 2014).
Significant assignments:
• Assigned participant in international Press delegations to all European countries (Western and ex-Eastern countries), USA, Russia, Asia, Africa. • Assigned correspondent in conflict areas of the Middle East, Kuwait, Bosnia, Sahara. • Covered as reporter among others, the fall of Ceausescu regime in Romania and the fall of the Berlin Wall. • Appointed by the Executive Board of the Athens Daily Newspapers´ Journalists Union to investigate the conditions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Öcalan trial press coverage in Moudania island, Turkey.
Συνδικαλιστική δραστηριότητα: Έχει διατελέσει μέλος του Διοικητικού Συμβουλίου της Ένωσης Συντακτών Ημερησίων Εφημερίδων Αθηνών, μέλος του Μορφωτικού Ιδρύματος, του Μικτού Συμβουλίου και Πρόεδρος της Εφορευτικής Επιτροπής της ΕΣΗΕΑ.
Other offices:• Consultant in Prime Ministers’ Press Office (1990 until 1993), • Board Member of the Greek National Broadcasting Council (2000 until 2002),
Trade Union activity::
• Elected Member of the Executive Board of the Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers –JUADN, • Member of the Cultural Institution of JUADN, • Member of JUADN Joint Boards, • President of JUADN Election Committee.