Dora Bakoyannis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dora Bakoyannis
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 6, 1954(1954-05-06)
Age	70
Birthplace	Athens
Country	Greece
Birth City	Attica
Horoscope	Taurus

Dora Bakoyannis Biography

Dora Bakoyannis is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 6, 1954 in Athens, Attica, Greece. Greek politician who is known for her work as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and mayor of Athens. She is an active member of the New Democracy party and has also been Minister of Culture from 1992 to 1993.

She visited in the United States in 2009 where she met Secretary of State She travelled to the United States in 2009 where she met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice..

Theodora “Dora” Bakoyanni (Greek: Θεοδώρα “Ντόρα” Μπακογιάννη ; pronounced [ˈdoɾa bakoˈʝani] ; née Mitsotakis; Greek: Μητσοτάκη ; born May 6, 1954) is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the time; she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2009. Previously she was the Mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006, the first female mayor in the city’s history, and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games. She also served as Minister for Culture of Greece from 1992 to 1993.

During her early school years, she attended the German School of Athens. Her family was exiled to Paris by the Greek military junta in 1968, thus she completed her secondary schooling at the German School of Paris. She then studied political science and communication at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich without graduating. After the collapse of the junta, she returned to Greece and continued her academic studies in public law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In addition to Greek, Bakoyannis is fluent in English, French and German.

She got married to Isidoros Kouvelos in 1998, and they have two kids named Alexia Kostas and Alexia. Kostas. They also have a daughter named after the the former Premier and Minister GReece Kostantinos Mitsotakis.

Dora Bakoyannis Net Worth

Dora Bakoyannis is one of the richest Politician from Greece. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dora Bakoyannis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a student at her studies at the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich where she received her qualification in the field of the field of Political Science along with Communication. She continued her studies in Public Law at the National and Kapodistrain University of Athens. In November 1989, she was elected to the Greek Parliament after being elected an elected Member of the Hellenic Parliament in the Evrytania constituency.

She was presented with Tirana’s Key to the City of Tirana following her visit the country of Albania at the beginning of March 2008.

Bakoyannis was born in Athens in 1954 to a prominent Greek family in the field of politics. She is the eldest of four children of the veteran Greek politician Konstantinos Mitsotakis, former Prime Minister of Greece and former leader of country’s main centre-right political party New Democracy, and Marika Mitsotakis (née Giannoukou). Her family originates from Chania, Crete, and has a long tradition in the politics of Greece. Besides her father and herself, other members of the family include prominent politicians such as her grandfather, Kyriakos, and his brother Aristomenis, while her younger brother Kyriakos, is the current Prime Minister of Greece. She is also a great- granddaughter of Eleftherios Venizelos’ sister. This decade-long involvement has been reprehended as attestation for family-rule in Greek political life.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Dora Bakoyannis Dating?

According to our records, Dora Bakoyannis married to Isidoros Kouvelos , Pavlos Bakoyannis. As of December 1, 2023, Dora Bakoyannis’s is not dating anyone.

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On 29 March 2002, Bakoyannis was picked to run for Mayor of Athens in the 2002 local elections, both a choice of Kostas Karamanlis who was looking for a way to demonstrate New Democracy’s growing strength against the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement and a chance for Bakoyannis to earn prestige by this office in advance of the city hosting the Olympic games. She was elected what was aired as Athens’ first female mayor in the city’s 3,500-year history, defeating her socialist opponent Christos Papoutsis and receiving a percentage of 60.6% in the runoff. As mayor, she was heavily involved in the preparation of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games, and passed the Olympic flag to the mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan. In 2005 she was awarded the World Mayor Prize.

Facts & Trivia

Dora Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Greece. Dora Bakoyannis celebrates birthday on May 6 of every year.

Bakoyannis received the honor of being elected World Mayor in 2005, an annual internet-based project organized by City Mayors in order to honor the mayors who have served their communities well. Her efforts to get Athens ready to host the 2004 Summer Olympics successfully, her actions to transform the city for the benefit of its residents and her fight against terrorism helped Bakoyannis win the award. During the contest she was strongly supported by the Greek community and also received thousands of votes from several countries around Europe, North America and Australia. She had also been continuously included in the Forbes Magazine’s List of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, she was awarded the Emperor Maximilian Award- European Award for Regional Policy and Local Government by the State of Tyrol and the city of Innsbruck. In 2009, she was named as the first female foreign associate of the French Academy in Humanities and Political Sciences. The same year, she was also awarded the title of Honorary Senator by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg. In 2010, Dora Bakoyannis has been awarded the National Order of the Chevalry of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic (Ordre Nationale de Chevalier de la Legion d’ Honneur).