Background
Born 1978 in Athens to Nea Dimokratia politicians Dora and Pavlos Bakoyannis, Kostas Bakoyannis lost his father Pavlos in 1989, when he was assassinated by the leftist terrorist group, Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
Born 1978 in Athens to Nea Dimokratia politicians Dora and Pavlos Bakoyannis, Kostas Bakoyannis lost his father Pavlos in 1989, when he was assassinated by the leftist terrorist group, Revolutionary Organization 17 November.
He studied history and International Relations at Brown University and graduated from Harvard with a Master of Public Administration.
Having served as mayor of Central Greek town of Karpenisi, he was popularly elected Regional governor of Central Greece in the 2014 region election. He speaks English and German. Kostas Bakoyannis’ articles are often published in the Greek and foreign press
Mayor of Karpenisi
In August 2010, Bakoyannis announced to run for mayoral office as an independent candidate in the small town of Karpenisi in Evrytania, where his father had originally come from.
Regional governor of Central Greece
Having promised in 2010 he would remain mayor of Karpenisi, Bakoyannis announced in early 2014 that he would run for the governorship of Central Greece, again as an independent.
He is currently working on his Doctor of Philosophy thesis at the University of Oxford, in the field of Political Science and International Relations. Nea Demokratia decided not to challenge Bakoyannis with an own candidate, though the party had expelled his mother Dora in May for voting in favor of the austerity measures proposed by the Papandreou government. In a To Vima interview he strongly defended the bailout deal stating that "where we have come to after all the crimes that the Greek political system made over the past 30 years, we had no choice but the Memorandum." He said that he wouldn"t rule out joining the new Democratic Alliance party his mother had founded, and that "Greece needs suicidal governments ready to kill themselves to save the country.".
Quotations: "where we have come to after all the crimes that the Greek political system made over the past 30 years, we had no choice but the Memorandum.".