Dimitris Kairidis is a member of parliament with the New Democracy party, representing Athens-North. He was first elected on July 7, 2019, and was reelected on May 21 and June 25, 2023. From June 27, 2023, until June 14, 2024, he served as Minister of Migration and Asylum of Greece. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Greek delegation to NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly and Vice-Chairman of the Standing Parliamentary Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs. He is also member of the Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice, the Special Standing Committee on European Affairs, the Special Standing Committee on Armament Programs and Contracts and of the Greece – India, Greece – Israel, and Greece – USA Parliamentary Friendship Groups.
In the past, he has served as Vice Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of European Affairs and as the Head of the Greek parliamentary delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe, where he served as Co-Chair of the Working Group on Migration. He was a Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, of the Inter-Party Committee for the Development of Thrace, where he coordinated the subcommittee on Economic Affairs, and of the Parliamentary Committee on Commerce and Production.
He is a Professor of International Politics at Panteion University of Athens and has taught at many universities in Greece and abroad, including Harvard and Tufts. He has published extensively on international politics, including books on nationalism and ethnic conflict, US foreign policy and Greek-Turkish relations both in Greek and in English. He has worked in the private and the public sector, in Greece and abroad.
He is married to Marilisa and he is the father of Iria and Nicolas.
