Vassilios Skouris

Vassilios Skouris
Vassilios Skouris, 2013
Minister of State
In office 26 May 2023 – 26 June 2023
Prime Minister	Ioannis Sarmas
President of the European Court of Justice
In office 7 October 2003 – 6 October 2015
Preceded by	Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias
Succeeded by	Koen Lenaerts
Minister of the Interior
In office 30 August 1996 – 25 September 1996
Prime Minister	Costas Simitis
Preceded by	Akis Tsochatzopoulos
Succeeded by	Alekos Papadopoulos
In office 12 October 1989 – 23 November 1989
Prime Minister	Yannis Grivas
Preceded by	Nikos Konstantopoulos
Succeeded by	Theodoros Katrivanos
Personal details
Born	(1948-03-06) 6 March 1948 (age 76) Thessaloniki, Greece
Alma mater	Free University of Berlin University of Hamburg

Vassilios Skouris (Greek: Βασίλειος Σκουρής; born 6 March 1948) is a Greek judge who was President of the European Court of Justice from 2003 to 2015. A European legal scholar, he served briefly in the government of Greece as Minister of the Interior in 1989 and again in 1996. He is professor at the Law School of the Aristotle University and at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.^[1]