Minister of Development

Panagiotis (Takis) Dimitriou Theodorikakos is Minister of Development and Member of Hellenic Parliament of Athens B3 Constituency (South).

He was elected in the 2023 national elections with 47.300 votes and was ranked second.

He was Strategy and Communication Advisor to the President of ND since October 2015 and Coordinator of Strategic Planning and Communication of the party, from October 2016 until the victorious election contests of May and July 2019 when he was elected as Member of State of the ND.

• In July 2019, he was appointed by the Prime Minister Mr Kyriakos Mitsotakis as Minister of the Interior.
• In August 2021 he was appointed by the Prime Minister Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis as Minister of Citizen Protection.
• In June 2024 he was appointed by the Prime Minister Mr Kyriakos Mitsotakis as Minister of Development.
• He has a long professional career as Political researcher and analyst and Strategy Advisor.
• PhD in Public Policies at the University of Peloponnese where he taught at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences till June 2019.
• He was a scientific partner and president of the company GPO SA, from 2000 to 2016. He has presented important social and political research in Greece and abroad at scientific conferences, workshop and mass media.

Graduated from the Pedagogical Department of EKPA. He completed his Master’s studies at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of EKPA in political science and sociology specializing in electoral sociology.

He graduated from the High School of the Ionidios Standard School.

He was born in 1964 in Piraeus.

He is married and has two children.