1. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, officially Georgios Chatzimarkakis is a German politician of Greek descent, former Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany.
15 Facts About Jorgo Chatzimarkakis
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis was a 2014 European Parliament candidate for the newly formed party Greek European Citizens of Greece.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of the European Hydrogen Association "Hydrogen Europe".
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis supplemented his studies with a visiting research fellowship at St Antony's College, University of Oxford under the auspices of Ralf Dahrendorf in 1995.
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From 1993 to 1996 Chatzimarkakis worked as a science policy officer at the Bundestag.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis held a lectureship at the University of Duisburg from 1997 to 2001, during which time he worked on his doctoral thesis on Informational Globalism - A cooperation model of global governance using the example of electronic commerce.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis is a member of the national executive committee of the FDP and of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party council since 1995.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis is a founding member of the Dahrendorfkreis, a wing of the FDP that advocates for sustainable liberalism.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2004 for the FDP party of Germany.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis currently sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries as well as on the Committee on Budgetary Control, for which he is a coordinator.
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From February 2016 Jorgo Chatzimarkakis is the first permanent Secretary General of Hydrogen Europe.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis criticized his party leader as not supporting investors to engage in Greece.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis repeatedly criticised the austerity policy of the Troika, he argues it pauperizes the country.
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In 2000 Jorgo Chatzimarkakis received a doctor's degree at the University of Bonn.
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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis is a founding member of the German-Greek Industrial Association and was elected its president in 2004.