Pavlos Geroulanos ( el, Παύλος Γερουλάνος, born in 1966 in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

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) is a

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politician for the

Panhellenic Socialist Movement The Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( el, Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, Panellínio Sosialistikó Kínima, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (; , ) is a social-democratic political party in Greece. Until 2012, it ...

. He served as the Minister for Culture and Tourism of Greece from 2009 until 2012.

Life

Pavlos Geroulanos was born in 1966 in

. He is the great-grandson of

Georgios Streit Georgios Streit ( el, Γεώργιος Στρέιτ; 1868–1948) was a Greek lawyer and professor. A legal advisor to King Constantine I, Streit was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1913–14, on the eve of World War I. Later, he served as a Jud ...

who was Foreign Minister of Greece on the eve of

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. Geroulanos graduated from

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...

in 1988 with highest honors with a degree in history. He played rugby with the Williams College Rugby Football club. In 1994 he received a master's degree in Public Administration from the

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and an

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from the

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. He worked as Financial Director for Photoelectron Corporation, a subsidiary of

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, from 1989 until 1992. In 1994 he took over the position of Chief Financial Officer of Kefalonia Fisheries and oversaw the restructuring of the company. From 2004 to 2006 he was a consultant for the

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. Pavlos Geroulanos began his political career in 1999, as an advisor to

George Papandreou George Andreas Papandreou ( el, Γεώργιος Ανδρέας Παπανδρέου, , shortened to ''Giorgos'' () to distinguish him from his grandfather; born 16 June 1952) is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from ...

, then the

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, and as Secretary General for Greeks Abroad, a position that he held until 2004. From 2006 to 2009 he was director of the Papandreou's party political bureau, in the latter's capacity as president of the

. Prior to the national elections of 2009, Geroulanos was appointed as PASOK's Secretary for Communications, acting as campaign manager for the European election campaign as well as the national election campaign of 2009. After PASOK's electoral victory in October 2009, Pavlos Geroulanos was appointed as the Minister for Culture and Tourism. The robbery at the Archaeological Museum of the history of the Ancient Olympic Games on 17 February 2012, resulted in Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos' resignation. His resignation was not accepted.

References

Biography of Pavlos Geroulanos in the Official Website of the Hellenic Parliament
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Biography of Pavlos Geroulanos in the Official Website of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement

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