Antonis Manitakis

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Antonis Manitakis
Αντώνης Μανιτάκης
Manitakis in 2017
Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction
In office
28 August 2015 – 23 September 2015
Prime MinisterVassiliki Thanou
Preceded byNikos Voutsis
Succeeded byPanagiotis Kouroumblis
In office
17 May 2012 – 21 June 2012
Interior
Prime MinisterPanagiotis Pikrammenos
Preceded byTasos Giannitsis
Succeeded byEvripidis Stylianidis
Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Governance
In office
21 June 2012 – 25 June 2013
Prime MinisterAntonis Samaras
Preceded byPavlos Apostolidis
Succeeded byKyriakos Mitsotakis
Personal details
Born (1944-04-19) 19 April 1944 (age 82)
PartyIndependent
SpouseKlita Theodorou (1993–present)
ChildrenNicolas
Evaggelos
Alma materUniversity of Thessaloniki
Free University of Brussels, French
WebsiteOfficial website

Antonis Manitakis (Greek: Αντώνης Μανιτάκης: born 1944) is a Greek university professor and politician.[1] He was a Minister of administrative reform and e-governance (2012/2013) and a former interim Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction, having served in 2012 and 2015.

Early life and education

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Manitakis was born on 19 April 1944 in Thessaloniki.[2] He studied law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a doctor of law from the University of Brussels. Afterwards, he was elected as a professor at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Antonis Manitakis was a student of Aristovoulos Manesis, whom he succeeded at the Constitutional law seat.[3]

Academic career

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During his academic career, he was the dean of the School of Law and Political Sciences, as well as a visiting scholar at the University of Montpellier (1987), the University of Paris X (1989), the University of Rome La Sapienza (1994) and the University of Nantes (2002). From 2004 to 2010, he taught European Constitutional Law at the University of Montpellier's Law School summer seminars.[4]

In 2007, Manitakis was awarded with the award of exceptional university teaching by the President of Greece Karolos Papoulias. He served as a deputy chairman of the National Council of Radio and Television (1997–1999).

Since April 2014, he is the Dean of the School of Law in the Neapolis University in Cyprus

Political career

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In May 2012, Manitakis was appointed interim minister of interior to the Caretaker Cabinet of Panagiotis Pikrammenos. On 21 June, after a suggestion made by the Democratic Left, it was announced that he would participate at the Government of Antonis Samaras as the minister of administrative reform and e-governance.

References

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