On Thursday, December 11, at 6 p.m., Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be the guest of Εlias Kanellis at the Athens Conservatory. This is the third event in the first series of public discussions entitled “They Are Greece Too – Discussions at the Athens Conservatory,” co-organized by The Books’ Journal and the Athens Conservatory, at the Conservatory’s premises.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been elected prime minister twice, in the 2019 and 2023 elections. The son of another prime minister, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, he was born in 1968, graduated from Athens College, and continued his studies in the United States at Harvard and Stanford. He worked as a financial analyst at Chase Investment Bank and as a consultant at McKinsey and Company in London, then at Alpha Ventures of Alpha Bank and the National Bank Group, while also serving as CEO of National Business Holdings.

He became active in politics as a member of the New Democracy party. He was first elected to parliament in 2004 in the Second District of Athens. He served as Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Governance from 2013 to 2015. On January 10, 2016, he was elected president of New Democracy, with which he won the next elections in 2019. Since then, he has been the Prime Minister of Greece.

At the Conservatory, he will talk about his political and intellectual journey, his relationship with knowledge, and the qualities required of a modern politician. The ideas and readings that shaped him, his influences, his role models, his friends, and his opponents are some of the topics that will be discussed. Finally, because a conversation with the prime minister is an opportunity for substantive political discussion, Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be asked to answer difficult questions on issues raised by the current situation.

Αdmission to the event is free.