Speaker Bio

Sofia Zacharaki was elected as a member of the Hellenic Parliament for Nea Demokratia in the June 2023 Greek Legislative Election, representing the East Attica constituency. On March 14, 2025 she was appointed Minister of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports. On June 27, 2023, she was appointed Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. She was appointed Deputy Minister for Tourism Education and Special forms of Tourism on January 2021 and served until May 2023. She previously held the office of Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs from July 2019 to January 2021. Before her appointment, she served as the spokesperson for Nea Demokratia, the then leading opposition Centre-right party in Greece, an EPP member party. Previous to that and for more than 2 years, Sofia was the party’s deputy spokesperson. Prior to that, in 2012 until 2014 she was the European and International Affairs advisor to the Minister of Development and participated in the preparation of the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union. She is a State Department programme alumna. In 2015 she represented Greece in the International Leadership Visitor Programme in the USA in the field of “The role of Private Public Partnerships in restructuring economies”.