politician Member of the Hellenic Parliament
From January to August 2015, he served as the Alternate Minister of Agricultural Development and Food in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. Born 1949 in Pappades, near Agia Anna, Euboea, Apostolou studied forestry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After the January 2015 legislative election, Apostolou was appointed Deputy Minister of Agricultural Development and Food.
As a member of Synaspismos, Apostolou has been a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Euboea in the 1996–2000 period and served as a member of Synaspismos" Political Secretariat from 2004 until 2010. Following his party into the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), he was elected again in the May 2012 and June 2012 elections and named Syriza"s shadow minister of rural development in July 2012.
