Stavros Lambrinidis
Stavros Lambrinidis (Greek Σταύρος Λαμπρινίδης, born February 6, 1962 in Athens ) is a Greek politician of the Social Democratic party PASOK. He was from June 17 to November 11, 2011 Foreign Minister of Greece.
Life
Stavros Lambrinidis in 1984 his studies in political science and public economics at Amherst College with a bachelor's degree from. Subsequently, he obtained his doctorate in 1988 at the Yale Law School in Law and worked from 1988 to 1993 at the Registry of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC. 1988, he served as chief editor of the legal journal The Yale Journal of International Law. In 1990 he was chairman of the Committee for Human Rights in the Bar Association of Washington.
From 1994 Lambrinidis was Special Advisor to the Greek Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and later Minister of Education Giorgos Papandreou. He was temporarily chief of staff of the Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos and in the same year Secretary-General for Greeks Abroad at the Foreign Ministry in 1996. He held until 1999, this office, in the same time he was also a member of the Committee on Greeks Abroad of PASOK.
From 1999 to 2004 Lambrinidis had the title of Special Ambassador of Greece and led from 2000 to 2004 as Director General of the International Centre for Olympic Truce, an organ of the International Olympic Committee, in the preparation period of the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. From 1998 to 2004 practiced Lambrinidis also visiting professor from the International Olympic Academy, the Diplomatic Academy of Greece and the Greek police Academy.
In the 2004 European elections Lambrinidis reached a seat in the European Parliament for PASOK. Here he joined the Socialist Group and was Vice Chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In the European elections in Greece in 2009 Lambrinidis ran on the third place of the PASOK list and settled again in parliament. He has now been appointed as one of the fourteen Vice- Presidents of Parliament. He is also Vice- President of the Party of European Socialists.
As MEPs to Lambrinidis sat among others for more privacy on the Internet and criticized the anti-piracy agreement ACTA, indirectly Internet censorship could be made possible by the.
In June 2011 Lambrinidis was appointed in a cabinet reshuffle to the Greek foreign minister. He solved it from Dimitris Droutsas, who in turn took over Lambrinidis ' seat in the European Parliament. Following the resignation of the Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou and formation of a new government under Loukas Papademos Stavros Dimas succeeded him as Foreign Minister.
Awards
Stavros Lambrinidis was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Institute for Humanist Studies of the National University of Donetsk in 1999.