Panagiotis Pikrammenos
President of the Council of State (retired), former Prime Minister, former Deputy Prime Minister (2019-2023)PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HELLENIC GOVERNMENT, Athens, Greece July 2019 – June 2023
Deputy Prime Minister of Greece
HELLENIC PARLIAMENT, Athens, Greece July 2019 – June 2023
State Member of the Hellenic Parliament
COUNCIL OF STATE, Athens, Greece June 1976 – July 2012
Supreme Administrative Court of Greece
- Honorary President (2012 – today)
- President (2009 – 2012)
- Vice – President (2007 – 2009)
- Counselor Judge (1993-2007)
- Master of Petitions (1981 – 1993)
- Trial- Court Judge (1978-1981)
- Auditor (1976 – 1978)
ARBITRATION February 2011 – May 2019
Acting as President and as Arbitrator
HELLENIC GOVERNMENT, Athens, Greece May 2012 – June 2012
Caretaker Prime Minister of Greece
NATIONAL SCHOOL OF JUDGES, Thessaloniki, Greece October 2005 – June 2009
General Director
HELLENIC GOVERNMENT, Athens, Greece 1991 – 1993
Prime Minister’s Special Advisor on Public Law
INCE & CO, London, UK June 1972 – August 1972 International Commercial Law Firm
Attorney at Law
SPYROS NICOLAIDES Law Office 1969 – 1973
Attorney at Law – Member of the Athens Bar Association
EDUCATION
University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France Postgraduate courses on European Law 1988 -1989
University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France DES de Droit Public 1973 – 1974
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Law Degree 1963 – 1968
German School, Athens Greek Apolytirion 1957 – 1963
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages: Native Greek, Fluent English, Fluent French, Fluent German
Achievements and Awards:
- Grand Cross of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic 2013
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Law School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2024
- Doctor Honoris Causa Law School, University of Plymouth May 2017
- Doctor Honoris Causa Panteion University October 2015
- Doctor Honoris Causa Law School, Democritus University of Thrace November 2012
Activities and Interests:
- Legal Action: President (2011- 2012) and Member (2007 – 2012) of the Supreme Special Court, President of OPEMED (Organisation for the Promotion of Mediation) (2015 – 2019), Member of the Greek Central Law Preparing Committee (1990-1991), President of the Special Law Preparing Committee on Strengthening the framework of telephone privacy (Statute Law 3674/2008), President of the Law Preparing Committee of the Greek Ministry of Justice on integrating EU Directive 2002/58/EC on privacy and electronic communications into the national law (Statute Lawn 3741/2006), President of the Law Preparing Committee of the Greek Ministry of Justice on integrating EU Directive 2006/24/EC on the
retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks amending Directive into the national law.
- Social Action: Member of the BoD of Pavlos & Alexandra Canellopoulos Foundation (2024-today), Member of the BoD of ELIAMEP (2024-today), Member of the BoD of Goulandris Museum of Natural History (2014-2019), Member of the BoD of the Benaki Museum (2015-2019), Vice President of the Greek not-for-profit Organisation “Open Society for Civil Movement”, Honorary Member of the BoD of the American – Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
- Sports: Tennis, Underwater Fishing

