Marietta Giannakou is a medical doctor, who graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is specialised in Neurology and Psychiatry with postgraduate studies in Ghent, Belgium. Marietta Giannakou is a medical doctor, who graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is specialised in Neurology and Psychiatry with postgraduate studies in Ghent, Belgium. Since 2019, she is once again a member of the Hellenic Parliament, where she is a member of the: Standing Committee on National Defence and Foreign Affairs; Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice; Special Standing Committee on European Affairs; Constitutional Revision Committee She is also Chairwoman of the parliamentary Greek-Moroccan Friendship Group and a member of the Greek-US and Greece-Croation Friendship Groups. She is the Head of the Hellenic Parliament to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, where she has been elected Vice-President in November 2020. In the past Marietta Giannakou has been: Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs & Minister of Health, Welfare and Social Security; Member of the Hellenic Parliament; Member of the European Parliament; Head of the Parliamentary Delegation of Nea Demokratia Party (ND) in the European Parliament; Member of the Political Bureau of European People’s Party; National Coordinator of Greece in the EU for combating drugs; Chairman of the Inquiry Committee of the European Parliament on the Drugs problem in the Member States; Member of the Convention on the Future of Europe, representing the Hellenic Parliament ;Vice President of the European Democratic Union, European Union of Christian Democrats and the International European Union; Member of Executive Committee and Political Council of the ND Party; Secretary for International Relations Affairs of the ND Party; Founding member of the Youth Organisation of the ND Party and member of the Executive Board. For her work in various areas, Marietta Giannakou has been honoured by Chile, France, Germany, Italy and Poland:

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