Ioannis Haralambopoulos

Background

Haralambopoulos, Ioannis was born in 1919 in Psari, Messinia, Greece.

Education

Graduate, Greek Military Academy, 1939. Student, Woolwich Institute, London, 1946—1950.

Career

Commissioned Greek Army, 1939. Resigned, 1961; member faculty Greek Military Academy, 1953—1954. Technical advisor Greek Ministry of Finance, 1954—1958.

Deputy Greek Parliament, 1963—1967. Founding member National Democratic Resistance Movement, 1967, jailed and deported, 1967, arrested and jailed, 1968, 1973—1974. Leader Panhellenic Liberation Movement, 1972.

Founding member PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement), member central committee and executive office, since 1977, minister of foreign affairs, 1981—1985, deputy prime minister, minister of defense, 1986—1989. PASOK parliamentary representative European Parliament, 1981. Member Socialist Political Bureau.

Achievements

• Ioannis Haralambopoulos has been listed as a noteworthy Greek government official by Marquis Who's Who.