Giorgos Kalos

George Kalos was born in Poros, Troizinia. He studied mathematics and electronics at the School of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Athens. He worked as a researcher at the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras, where he also completed his doctoral dissertation on cybernetics. He taught as a faculty member at the National Technical University of Athens and at the Hellenic Naval Academy in Piraeus. In 1989, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time in the First Piraeus and Islands constituency. During his parliamentary tenure (1989-2007), he participated in numerous committees and delegations to international organizations and worked systematically in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on issues related to education and youth training. From 1996 to 2004, he served as the Education Sector Head for New Democracy and was appointed Deputy Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs in the Karamanlis governments from 2004 to 2007. Alongside writing numerous scientific papers and political essays, he has also engaged in literature. He has written prose and poetry that have been published in various magazines.