10 Facts About Giorgos Kaminis

Georgios Kaminis is a Greek American politician and professor of constitutional law.

Giorgos Kaminis was the Greek Ombudsman from April 2003 until September 2010 and Mayor of Athens from 2011 until 2019.

Giorgos Kaminis was born in New York City, where his father, Vasilis Kaminis was working at the time.

Giorgos Kaminis studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens, graduating in 1980.

Giorgos Kaminis conducted postgraduate studies in public law at Pantheon-Assas University, gaining a MAS in 1982, followed by the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, where he obtained a doctorat d'Etat en droit in 1989.

Giorgos Kaminis was elected a lecturer in 1991 and an assistant professor in 1998.

Giorgos Kaminis was elected Mayor of Athens after the second round of the Greek local elections of 2010.

Giorgos Kaminis, who ran as an independent, had been nominated by the small, newly formed Democratic Left party and was backed by the country's ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement, the Ecologist Greens and Portokali.

Giorgos Kaminis was re-elected in 2014, defeating the Syriza candidate Gabriel Sakellaridis in the second round.

Giorgos Kaminis is married to Adamantia Anagnostou, a lecturer at the University of Macedonia.