Minister of Health and Social Solidarity Dimitrios Avramopoulos of Greece

Dimitrios Avramopoulos is now Minister of Health and Social Solidarity in the Greek government, and until February 2006 was Minister of Tourism.

After a year in Parliament, Mr Avramopoulos was elected Mayor of Athens in October 1994, going on to be re-elected in 1998 in a landslide victory.

In the 2004 general election, Mr Avramopoulos was elected as a New Democracy MP once more, going on to be appointed Minister of Tourism later that year.

Avramopoulos was in the United States earlier this month meeting with representatives of the US film industry hoping to attract movie makers to use Greece as a back drop for their future productions.

Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Avramopoulos is also at the Department of Psychiatry and the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dimitris Avramopoulos took the office of Minister of Tourism until 2006.