Takis Theodorikakos

Takis Theodorikakos is Minister of Development of the Hellenic Republic and a Member of the Hellenic Parliament representing the Southern Athens constituency for New Democracy (ND), having been elected in the 2023 national elections.

He has over 20 years of professional experience as a political researcher, analyst and strategic adviser. From 2000 to 2016, he served as a Research Associate and subsequently as President of GPO S.A., a leading Greek public opinion research company.

Throughout his career, he has presented major social and political research findings in Greece and internationally, at academic conferences, professional forums and through the media.

He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the University of the Peloponnese, where he taught at the School of Political and Social Sciences for 16 years.

In October 2015, he was appointed Strategic and Communications Adviser to the President of New Democracy. From October 2016 until the party’s electoral victories in May and July 2019, he served as its Coordinator of Strategic Planning and Communications. Following the July 2019 elections, he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament on New Democracy’s nationwide party list.

He has held several senior ministerial positions in the Greek Government:

• Minister of the Interior, appointed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in July 2019.
• Minister of Citizen Protection, appointed in August 2021.
• Minister of Development, appointed in June 2024.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He also completed postgraduate studies in Political Science and Sociology at the university’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration, specialising in electoral sociology.

He is a graduate of the prestigious Ionidios Model School in Piraeus.

Born in Piraeus in 1964, he is married and has two children.