Kostas Tsiaras

Kostas Tsiaras was born in Karditsa in 1966.

· He is a Microbiologist-Biopathologist with a PhD from Athens University

Medical School, with post-graduate studies in in-vitro fertilization at

Swedish university centers.

· In 2004 he was elected for the first time as a New Democracy Member of

Parliament for Karditsa.

· He was re-elected in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2019.

· From July 2012 to June 2013 he was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister.

· In July 2013 he was elected Chairman of the Standing Committee on

Defense and Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament.

· In January 2016 he was elected General Secretary of the Parliamentary

Group of New Democracy.

· In July 2019 he was appointed Minister of Justice.

· In June 2023 he was appointed Parliamentary Representative of ND and in

June 2024 he was appointed Minister of Rural Development and Food.

· He is married to Aggeliki Stergiouli, molecular biologist, and they have a

son and two daughters.