September 5, 2018

ΑTHANASIOS DAVAKIS

DEPUTY MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE

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Athanasios Davakis was born on 18th of March 1962, in Athens. He originates from Mani (Kehrianika).

He studied Law at the Democritus University of Thrace (1980 – 1984) and Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1984 – 1986), earning the respective degrees. He was a postgraduate scholar at the Centre for Modern Greek Studies of the National Hellenic Research Foundation.

He served his military service in the Air Force as a Reserve Second Lieutenant. (1984-86).

In 1986, he became a member of the Athens Bar Association and since then he has been working intermittently as a lawyer.

He has been continuously elected as a Member of Parliament for Laconia with the New Democracy political party from 1993 to the present, except for the period 2007-2009. From 2013 to 2014, he served as Deputy Minister of National Defense, during which he was awarded the Cross of Value and Honor for his distinguished services.

He has served as Secretary, Dean of the Parliament, and President of the Special Standing Committee on Defense Procurement and Contracts. Throughout his long parliamentary career, he has participated in various Standing and Special Committees, such as the Committee on Public Administration, Public Order, and Justice, the Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Defense Procurement and Contracts, the Committee on Research and Technology, the Committee on the Rules of Parliament, the Committee on the Revision of the Constitution, the Committee on Hellenism of the Diaspora, the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy, and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

He acted as a chair of Boards in the Greek Organization “O.G.E.E.K.A. Dimitra” (Greek Ministry for Food and Rural Development from March 2008 till September 2009).

He speaks English and French.

He is married and father of a daughter.