Ministry of Migration and Asylum

Notis A. Mitarachi
Minister

Notis Mitarachi is Minister of Migration and Asylum and an MP in the constituency of

Chios (New Democracy Party - EPP).

During the Hellenic Presidency of the Council of the EU (first Semester 2014) he served
as President of the Council of the European Union – Foreign Affairs (Trade). In the period
2012-2015 he served as Deputy Minister for Economic Development and
Competitiveness, responsible for Strategic and Private-Sector Investments, Public-
Private Partnerships, Exports and International Trade Relations. He also served as
Alternate Governor in the Board of Governors of the World Bank and the European Bank
for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) and as Governor in the Board of Governors of
the Black Sea Trade & Development Bank (BSTB). In 2019 (second semester), he was
appointed as the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, responsible for the Social
Security & Pension System.

In 2012 he was elected Member of Parliament in the constituency of Athens A’ and then
elected in 2015 and 2019 Member of Parliament in the constituency of Chios. In 2019,
he was appointed as Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).

He had a long international career in the private sector, before returning to Greece in
2010. His first appointment was in London, in 1998, as an investment executive,
specializing in industrial investments in Eastern Europe. In 2003, he joined Fidelity
International as a Research Analyst and was promoted to Director of Research. In 2005
he was voted Top Pan-European, Buy-side Analyst for the retailing industry (Thomson
Extel Survey). He has also served as Chairman of the Hellenic Bankers Association, UK,
and as a Member of the Board of Directors of the CFA Society UK.

He is a graduate of INSEAD (MBA), Oxford University (MSc in Industrial Relations) and

The American College of Greece (BSc in Business Administration). He is also a Fellow of
the Chartered Management Institute and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
Charterholder. He has been awarded as Grand Commander of the Order of the Apostle
& Evangelist Mark by the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa. He was born in 1972
and is married to Maria Dourida, an academic, with whom he has one daughter.

January 2020

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