NAME: Papastamkos, Georgios.

GREECE

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats (EPP-ED).

PARTY: Nea Dimokratia.

CONSTITUENCY: Greece

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009

Committees: Committee on International Trade; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Co-operation Committee; Committee on Legal Affairs; Committee on Constitutional Affairs.

Political Career: Member of the Greek Parliament for Imathia (New Democracy) 1989-1996; Deputy Minister for National Economy and Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs 1990-1993.

Profession: Professor of international and European Studies at the University of Piraeus since 2001; Deputy Rector of the University of Piraeus 2002-2004; Member of Teaching and Research Staff at the Legal Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1988-2001; Researcher at the International and European Financial Law Centre 1982-1989.

Education: Aristotles University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Law and Economics, Law Graduate 1978; University of Tübingen, Doctorate in Law 1981.

Political Affiliations: Jean Monnet European Chair 2002.

Born: 5 March 1955, Platanorema, Kozanis.