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Former Greek MP Teaching at Abu Dhabi University

kalantzakouAfter two terms in the Greek Parliament, former Greek MP Sofia Kalantzakou decided to try something completely different outside of Greece.

Sofia Kalantzakou was elected a member of the Greek Parliament in the region of Messenia in Peloponnese with New Democracy in the election of 2000 and 2004, while she also served as the Deputy Employment Minister. Now, some years later she decided to leave Greece and work in a completely different field.

After she left Greece she spend some time in the U.S. teaching at the New York University. In the end she decided that she would pursue an academic career and she now collaborates with educational institutions in Abu Dhabi, Shanghai and Munich, as a distinguished professor of environmental science and public policy.

Kalantzakou first moved to New York for personal reasons, since her husband Filippos Mitsis had been invited to work at NYU.

She used to be part of New Democracy under Kostas Karamanlis’ leadership, however, she left when Antonis Samaras took the reins because she did not support his views for the party.

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