George Papandreou

George Papandreou
Γιώργος Παπανδρέου
Papandreou in 2011
Prime Minister of Greece
In office 6 October 2009 – 11 November 2011
President	Karolos Papoulias
Deputy	Theodoros Pangalos Evangelos Venizelos
Preceded by	Kostas Karamanlis
Succeeded by	Lucas Papademos
Leader of the Opposition
In office 10 March 2004 – 6 October 2009
Prime Minister	Kostas Karamanlis
Preceded by	Kostas Karamanlis
Succeeded by	Kostas Karamanlis
Other political offices President of the Socialist International In office 30 January 2006 – 25 November 2022 Preceded by António Guterres Succeeded by Pedro Sánchez Minister of Foreign Affairs In office 6 October 2009 – 7 September 2010 Preceded by Dora Bakoyannis Succeeded by Dimitrios Droutsas In office 18 February 1999 – 13 February 2004 Prime Minister Costas Simitis Preceded by Theodoros Pangalos Succeeded by Tassos Yiannitsis President of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement In office 8 February 2004 – 18 March 2012 Preceded by Costas Simitis Succeeded by Evangelos Venizelos Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs In office 8 July 1994 – 25 September 1996 Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou Preceded by Dimitrios Fatouros Succeeded by Gerasimos Arsenis In office 22 June 1988 – 2 July 1989 Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou Preceded by Apostolos Kaklamanis Succeeded by Vasileios Kontogiannopoulos Member of the Hellenic Parliament Incumbent Assumed office 17 July 2019 Constituency Achaea In office 18 October 1981 – 31 December 2014 Constituency Achaea President of the Movement of Democratic Socialists Incumbent Assumed office 3 January 2015 Preceded by Office established
Personal details
Born	George Jeffrey Papandreou[1] (1952-06-16) 16 June 1952 (age 71) Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Nationality	Greek
Political party	Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Before 2015) Movement of Democratic Socialists (2015–present)
Other political affiliations	PASOK – Movement for Change
Spouses	Eva Zissimidou ​ ​ (m. 1976; div. 1987)​ Ada Papapanou ​ ​ (m. 1989; div. 2016)​
Children	2
Parent(s)	Andreas Papandreou (father) Margaret Chant-Papandreou (mother)
Alma mater	Amherst College (BA) London School of Economics (MSc)
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Website	papandreou.gr

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George Andreas Papandreou (Greek: Γεώργιος Ανδρέας Παπανδρέου,^[2][3][4] pronounced [ʝeˈorʝios papanˈðreu], shortened to Giorgos (Γιώργος) [ˈʝorɣos] to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for Movement for Change.

Belonging to a political dynasty of long standing, he served under his father, then-prime minister Andreas Papandreou as Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs (1988–1989 and 1994–1996). He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Costas Simitis from 1999 to 2004. Papandreou was leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party, which his father founded, from February 2004 until March 2012, and has been President of the Socialist International from 30 January 2006 to 25 November 2022.^[5]

On 6 October 2009, George Papandreou became the 182nd Prime Minister of Greece. He was the third member of the Papandreou family to serve as the country's prime minister, following his father Andreas and his grandfather Georgios Papandreou. He resigned on 11 November 2011 during the Greek government debt crisis to make way for a national unity government.

In March 2012, he resigned as leader of PASOK, and in January 2015, he left the party completely, founding his own political party, the Movement of Democratic Socialists (KIDISO), which was the 8th most voted-for party in the January 2015 elections, but did not manage to enter Parliament. In 2017, KIDISO joined the Democratic Alignment, a political alliance formed by PASOK and other centre-left parties. Democratic Alignment later evolved into Movement for Change, which in the 2019 elections was the third most voted-for party, with Papandreou himself returning to Parliament as an MP representing the region of Achaea.