Stylianos - Ioannis G. Koutnatzis is Secretary General for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and Cabinet Secretary at the Presidency of the Government of the Hellenic Republic (since 2019). After graduating first in his class from the University of Athens Law School (2000), he completed his LL.M. at Harvard Law School (2002) and a doctorate degree in law at the Freie Universität Berlin (summa cum laude honors; awarded the University’s Ernst-Reuter Prize) (2009). He has worked as Lecturer in Public Law at the Democritus University of Thrace Law School (since 2014; currently on leave), while he has also taught at the University of Athens and Panteion University and served as legal advisor to Greece’s Deputy Finance Minister (2012-2015). He is also an attorney-at-law (co-founder of the MKlegal law offices) and Member of the Editorial Board of the law journal “To Syntagma”. Stylianos-Ioannis Koutnatzis has received scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and the Fulbright Program and he has been appointed Landon H. Gammon Fellow at Harvard Law School. He has published books and articles in Greek, English and German most notably on constitutional law, administrative law and constitutional theory.
