Kostas Bakoyannis

Mayor Bakoyannis was born in 1978 in Athens, and graduated from the History and  International Relations department at Brown University. He continued his  postgraduate studies in Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of  Government. He had a Ph.D. degree in Political Science and International Relations,  from the University of Oxford. He has worked at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs  and has held positions in the European Parliament in Brussels and the World Bank in  Kosovo. He is the vice president of the Hellenic Agency for Local Development and  Local Government, a council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations  and a Greek Leadership Council member of the United Nations Sustainable  Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He served as Mayor of Karpenissi from 2011  to 2014 and as Governor of Central Greece from 2014 to 2019. Bakoyannis is the  Mayor of Athens since 2019.