Zoe Rapti ( el, Ζωή Ράπτη) is a Greek lawyer and politician, who has been a Member of the

Hellenic Parliament The Hellenic Parliament ( el, Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο, Elliniko Kinovoulio; formally titled el, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Voulí ton Ellínon, Boule (ancient Greece), Boule of the Greeks, Hellenes, label=none), also kno ...

for the New Democracy party for

Athens B1 The B1 North Athens electoral constituency ( el, Β1' Εκλογική Περιφέρεια Βόρειου Τομέα Αθηνών) is a List of parliamentary constituencies of Greece, parliamentary constituency of Greece, created after the breaku ...

since 2019. On 5 August 2020, she became Deputy Minister for Mental Health in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Biography

Rapti was born in Athens and lives in the

Filothei-Psychiko Filothei–Psychiko ( el, Φιλοθέη-Ψυχικό) is a municipality in the North Athens regional unit, Attica, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Psychiko. Municipality The municipality Filothei–Psychiko was formed at the 201 ...

municipality. She studied law at the

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

(1984-1989) and then undertook postgraduate study at the

University of Kent , motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...

in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

(1990-1991), where she received a

Master of Laws A Master of Laws (M.L. or LL.M.; Latin: ' or ') is an advanced postgraduate academic degree, pursued by those either holding an undergraduate academic law degree, a professional law degree, or an undergraduate degree in a related subject. In mos ...

with honours in International Commercial Law. From 1991 to 2014, Rapti worked as a lawyer in Athens in the Council of State where she specialised in environmental and surveyance law. She collaborated with the "Chamber of Environment and Sustainability" from 2001 to 2005 and with the general secretariat of the Olympic Games in the Ministry of Culture on the sustainability and shared use of Olympic facilities from 2004 to 2006.

Political career

Rapti was municipal councillor of Psychiko from 1998 until 2014, serving as deputy mayor from 2005 to 2006 and in 2009, chair of the municipal council in 2007, and representative of the municipality in the Central Union of Greek Municipalities (ΚΕΔΕ) from 2007 to 2010. From 2010 to 2015, she was General Secretary of the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute of Democracy. She was Secretary of Party Social Relations and a member of the health, labour, and community solidarity divisions of the New Democracy party from 2016 to 2018. Rapti was a candidate for the New Democracy party in the

2014 European Parliament election The 2014 European Parliament election was held in the European Union, from 22 to 25 May 2014. It was the 8th parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first in which the European political parties fielded candid ...

. She participated in both the

January January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is also the first of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the ...

and September 2015 elections, standing for the New Democracy party in Athens B, but did not win a seat. In April 2019 she was sworn in as member of parliament after the resignation of

Vangelis Meimarakis Evangelos-Vasileios "Vangelis" Meimarakis ( el, Ευάγγελος-Βασίλειος "Βαγγέλης" Μεϊμαράκης, ; born 14 December 1953), is a Greek lawyer and politician who served as the acting President of New Democracy and Leade ...

. She was re-elected as member of parliament for Athens B in the July 2019 election. Since 5 August 2020, Rapti has been a Deputy Minister of Health, with responsibility for

mental health Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior. It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making. Mental health ...

in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

References

External links

*Official website: {{DEFAULTSORT:Rapti, Zoe New Democracy (Greece) politicians Greek MPs 2019–2023 Women members of the Hellenic Parliament Health ministers of Greece Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Politicians from Athens Alumni of the University of Kent