Tasos Giannitsis (Greek:Τάσος Γιαννίτσης, born 1944), is aGreek politician, academic and business executive.
Born inAthens,Greece in 1944, Tasos Giannitsis graduated from the German School of Athens. He studied Law and Economics-Political Sciences at theNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and then in 1974 he obtained a Doctorate in Economics from theUniversity of Berlin.
He served as adviser to theHellenic Bank Association, theMinistry of National Economy (Greece) and various other businesses. He was member of the Economic Committee of theOECD (1993-2000) and Financial Advisor to thePrime Minister of Greece in the period 1994-2000. He was Minister for Labor and Social Insurance (Greece) (2000-2001), Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs (2001-2004) andMinister for Foreign Affairs of Greece (2004). He is a professor at the Economic Department of theUniversity of Athens.
In December 2009, he resigned from the Board of Directors of Lambrakis Press to take over as Chairman of the BoD in Hellenic Petroleum. On November 11, 2011, he took over as theMinister of the Interior (Greece) of theLoukas Papademos government.
In March 2015 he was appointed Chairman of the BoD of LAMDA Development Company.
In January 2025 he was proposed as a candidate for theGreek Presidency in the2025 Greek presidential election with the support ofPASOK.[1]
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