Kyriakos Mitsotakis was born in Athens in 1968. He studied Social Studies at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude, before completing a Master’s degree in International Relations at Stanford University and an MBA at Harvard Business School. He is fluent in English, French, and German. He has authored the book “Straddling the horns of a dilemma.”
He began his career in the private sector, working at top tier global firms in investment banking and strategy consulting based out of London. He returned to Greece in the late 1990’s to take on leadership roles in some of the country’s private equity and venture capital firms, culminating with his 3-year term as CEO of NBG Venture Capital. For his professional achievements, he has received several distinctions, the most notable being his 2003 recognition by the World Economic Forum as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow.”
Kyriakos Mitsotakis entered public life in late 2003 and was elected a Member of the Hellenic Parliament the following year. Over the years, he has served in critical roles, including Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Government, where he oversaw landmark reforms to modernize the Greek public administration.
In January 2016, he was elected President of Nea Demokratia, Greece’s center-right political party, which he contemporized, thus renewing and boosting its membership base, while putting in place a code of transparency and accountability in party operations and funding.
He led his party to a landslide victory three years later. In July 2019, he was sworn in as Prime Minister, winning a new four-year term with an increased electoral majority in June 2023. Under his leadership, Greece has returned to investment-grade status after a decade of economic crisis and secured renewed international confidence, advancing Greece’s role as a reliable partner in Europe and the wider world. In recognition of these achievements, the Economist named Greece “Country of the Year” in 2023. At a personal level, in September 2024 Kyriakos Mitsotakis was honored with the Global Citizen Award by the Atlantic Council in New York, and in May 2025, he received the Gold Medal of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation in Germany.
His government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic was widely recognized as one of the most effective in Europe, combining swift public health action with a rapid digital transformation. As head of government, he has pursued an ambitious reform agenda focused on economic recovery, digital transformation, energy transition, and civil rights (including enabling the voting rights of the large Greek diaspora). He pursued his progressive reforms while maintaining a strong commitment to the strengthening of democratic institutions, fiscal responsibility, national security, and border control.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis has laid out an ambitious plan to put Greece in the center of shaping the AI agenda for Europe, with concrete initiatives already underway to aggressively introduce AI in public administration, education, and health care.
He is married to Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotaki. They have three children, Sophia, Konstantinos and Daphne.
