Spilios Livanos holds a BA in Politics and Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA) and an MA in International Relations from Reading University (UK). He worked as an advisor in the EU Commission’s Social Fund (Brussels) and as an executive on corporate development of private enterprises (Greece). In 2002, he founded a real estate development company operating in Greece and in Belgium, which he runs until today. He was elected as an MP for the party of Nea Dimokratia in the national election of 2007 and of 2019 in the region of Aetolia-Akarnania. In 2019, he served as parliamentary representative for New Democracy. From January 2021 to February 2022, he served as Minister of Rural Development and Food. In November 2022, he was elected Vice President of the North Atlantic Treaty Association (NATO) Parliamentary Assembly where he currently serves as Head of the Greek Delegation. In his two terms as MP, he sat on the Standing Parliamentary Committees of “Defense and Diplomacy”, “Economic Affairs”, “Cultural and Educational Affairs”, “Public Administration, Public Order and Justice” and on the Special Standing Committee of the “Financial Statement and the General Balance Sheet and the Implementation of the State Budget” From 2016 to 2019 he chaired the Board of Directors of “Estia Panagiotis Kanellopoulos.”