Dora Bakoyannis
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Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni (born May 6, 1954) is a Greek politician.
She served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece from 2006 to 2009, the first position to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the time; at the time, she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
She served as the mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006, the city's first female mayor, and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games.
She served as Minister of Culture of Greece from 1992 to 1993. Bakoyannis has served as an independent member of the Hellenic Parliament, representing the political party she founded in 2010, after being barred from the opposition New Democracy Party due to non-voting against the party's line.
The Democratic Alliance in May 2012, owing to the difficult situation in Greece before the elections and the emergence of the modern electoral law, the party decided to collaborate with New Democracy, based on a concrete set of values and cease operations.
On May 21, 2012, Dora Bakoyanni returned to New Democracy, ahead of the parliamentary election in June, where she led the state deputies' ballot.
Early life and education
Bakoyannis was born in Athens in 1954 to a prominent Greek family in the field of politics. Marika Mitsotakis (née Giannoukou) is the eldest of four children of Greek politician Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former Prime Minister of Greece and former leader of the country's largest center-right political party New Democracy. Her family comes from Chania, Crete, and has a long tradition of Greek politics. In addition to her father and herself, other family members of the family include popular politicians such as her grandfather, Kyriakos, and his brother Aristomenis, while her younger brother Kyriakos is Greece's new Prime Minister. Eleftherios Venizelos' sister is also a great-granddaughter. This decade-long participation has been criticized as a vote for family rule in Greece's political history.
She attended the German School of Athens in her early childhood years. During the Greek military junta's 1968 exiled her family to Paris, so she completed her secondary schooling at the German School of Paris. She then studied political science and communication at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she did not graduate. After the demise of the junta, she returned to Greece and continued her academic studies in public law at Athens' National and Kapodistrian University. Bakoyannis, in comparison to Greek, is fluent in English, French, and German.
Personal life
She married journalist Pavlos Bakoyannis in December 1974 and gave birth to their two children, Alexia and Kostas. She began working in the Department of European Economic Community Affairs in 1977 and undertook examinations at the Ministry of Economic Coordination. She served as the head of staff until 1989, when her father was elected leader of New Democracy in 1984. She husband, who had been elected a member of the Hellenic Parliament in the June 1989 election, was assassinated by members of the terrorist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November as he entered his office building. She married businessman Isidoros Kouvelos in 1998, but she keeps her late husband's surname.
She revealed on October 18, 2021, that she had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of white blood cell cancer.
Political career
Bakoyannis successfully fought for her late husband's seat in the Evrytania constituency in the 1990 general election and spent as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of Greece following her father's aspiration as Prime Minister of Greece in the 1990 election. She served in the General Secretariat of International Affairs for New Democracy from September 1991 to August 1992, representing the party in the European Democrat Union and the International Democrat Union. She served as Minister for Culture of Greece until the 1993 election, when she was re-elected a member of Parliament for New Democracy as the main opposition party's leader.
Bakoyannis was elected in the Central Committee of New Democracy by the party's Third Congress on April 29, 1994. Bakoyannis ran for first time in Athens A' electoral district in 1996 and was elected as a member of Parliament for the second time, placing him first of all the candidates in the competition, something that was repeated in the 2000 election. In the meantime, she was re-elected to the Central Committee of New Democracy by the party's Fourth Congress on March 22, 1997. She served for two terms as the chairperson of the party's Executive Committee for two terms. She was appointed by New Democracy leader Kostas Karamanlis in the party's Department for Growth and as Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense in September 1997.
Bakoyannis was selected for Mayor of Athens in the 2002 municipal elections, marking a step for Bakoyannis to campaign for New Democracy against the ruling Panhellenic Social Movement and a chance for Bakoyannis to rise in importance by this office ahead of the city hosting the Olympic games. In the runoff, she was elected what was broadcast as Athens' first female mayor in the city's 3,500-year history, defeating her socialist rival Christos Papoutsis and receiving a percentage of 66%. She was instrumental in the preparations of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, becoming the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games, and she presented the Olympic flag to Wang Qishan, Beijing's mayor. In 2005, she received the World Mayor Award.
Bakoyannis was among 12 high-level independent figures from Europe in 2003, contributing to a prestigious round-table conference on the social constitution, cultural identity, and economic future of a new Europe.
Bakoyannis resigned from the Cabinet of Greece before her term was ended, and she was appointed by acting mayor Fotini Pipili to become Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece on February 15, 2006, making her the highest-ranking woman in the country's history. She held the position until the 2007 election, but she was subsequently elected first among all the candidates in the Athens A' constituency. Bakoyannis assumed the UN Security Council's revolving Greek presidency in September 2006, at a time when international tensions regarding nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea were at an end, and in the midst of a fragile United Nations brokered cease-fire in Lebanon, Bakoyannis assumed the undisputed Greek presidency.
During her incumbency, she promoted cooperation in the Balkans, where Greek companies are heavily invested, and attended the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's meetings to discuss regional trends. She also advocated for the Ratification of Lisbon by the Hellenic Parliament and endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal for the Union for the Mediterranean, but not a compromise was reached between Turkey and Macedonia over the Cyprus crisis and the Macedonia naming dispute respectively.
Bakoyannis served as the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe from January 2009 to October 2009. She was in charge of the OSCE's external representation and personnel selections as the organisation's political leader. She also oversaw the OSCE's conflict prevention, crisis management, and post-conflict rehabilitation. During her chairmanship, she was supported by her staff and Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, the OSCE's secretary general, as well as her predecessor Alexander Stubb and successor Marat Tazhin, who both arrived in Bakoyannis the OSCE Troika.