Eva Kaili
Eva Kaili was born in Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece on October 26th, 1978 and is the Politician. At the age of 45, Eva Kaili biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Before her political career, Kaili was a known newscaster at Mega Channel from 2004 until 2007. She was a consultant on Communication Strategy and Public and Foreign Affairs of Greek Pharmaceutical companies and one of the biggest Media Groups 2012-2014.
Political career
In 1992, Kaili joined the PASOK Youth. In 2001, she was President of the School of Architecture Students' Association and by 2002, she was already the youngest member to be elected in the Thessaloniki City Council.
In the 2004 national elections, Kaili was the youngest candidate standing. In the 2007 national elections, she was elected as a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the first district of Thessaloniki. At the time, she was the youngest Member of Parliament with the PASOK party. She retained her seat in the 2009 national elections until 2012.
During her term in Parliament, Kaili served as a member of the following Parliamentary Committees: Standing Committee on Cultural and Educational Affairs, Standing Committee on National Defence and Foreign Affairs, and Special Permanent Committee of Greeks Abroad. She was also a member of the Greek delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean. She has represented Greece in conferences and special missions abroad.
Ahead of a crucial vote of confidence for Prime Minister, George Papandreou in November 2011. Kaili made headlines when she announced that she would refuse to support the government in the vote; this would have left Papandreou with the support of just 151 PASOK deputies out of 300. She later backtracked and Papandreou won the vote of confidence with all 155 lawmakers of PASOK expressing their support for his beleaguered government.
Eva Kaili has been Member of the European Parliament since 2014 and a member of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in Europe. She is Vice President for Innovation Strategy, ICT, Technology, Foresight, Businesses, ESG and CSR, UN, WTO, OECD and Middle East. She served as the first woman Chair of the European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment body (STOA) 2017-2022, Chair of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI), and Chair of the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (DNAT) 2014-2019. She has been serving on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), and the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL). She is an alternate member on the Committee on Budgets (BUDG) and on Delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula (DARP)
In addition to her committee assignments, Kaili is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Cancer, the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability, the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (D-RU) and the Delegation for Relations with the United States of America (D-US).
Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP of the Group of the Progressive Alliance and of Socialists and Democrats in the EP was the recipient of the 2018 MEP Awards for New Technologies. Since 2019, is the Head of the Hellenic S&D (Socialists & Democrats) delegation. Kaili became Vice President of the European Parliament on 18th January 2022 after being elected on the first round of votes by 454 votes. She became the first Greek woman from S&D elected to the post, since 2014. Politico referred to her as one of the Brussels Tech Gang, influencing Digital and Tech Policy.