11 Facts About Theodore Katsanevas

Theodore Katsanevas was a Greek academic and politician.

In May 2013, Katsanevas founded the political party Drachmi Greek Democratic Movement Five Stars, which campaigns for Greece to abandon the euro and return to the drachma.

Theodore Katsanevas obtained an MA from the University of Warwick and a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Theodore Katsanevas was a professor of labour economics at the University of Piraeus.

In 1981, Theodore Katsanevas was among the authors of the program for the first cabinet of Andreas Papandreou and he was first appointed to the Manpower Employment Organisation, then in 1985 to the state welfare agency.

Theodore Katsanevas was elected deputy in the second electoral district of Athens with PASOK from 1989 until 2004, when he was officially restricted from standing as a candidate by the party itself.

Until their divorce in 2000, Theodore Katsanevas was married to Sophia, the daughter of Andreas Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece.

Theodore Katsanevas had placed Liani in charge of his office, and opponents of Papandreou alleged that she was overstepping the bounds of her authority and seeking to advance a political career of her own.

Theodore Katsanevas disputed the validity of the will and in 2003 won a defamation trial against Spyros Karatzaferis, publisher of a newspaper which for some time in 1998 featured, every day on the front page, a photograph of Theodore Katsanevas subtitled "Disgrace".

In 2018 the trial ended with Theodore Katsanevas dropping all claims.

Theodore Katsanevas died on 8 May 2021, at age 74, from COVID-19 at a hospital in Athens during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece.