Christoforos Vernardakis

Christoforos Vernardakis
Χριστόφορος Βερναρδάκης
Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens A
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 November 2015
Minister of State for Government Coordination
In office 5 November 2016 – 9 July 2019
President	Prokopis Pavlopoulos
Prime Minister	Alexis Tsipras
Preceded by	none (new post)
Succeeded by	none (post abolished)
Alternate Minister of Administrative Reform
In office 17 July 2015 – 20 August 2015
President	Prokopis Pavlopoulos
Prime Minister	Alexis Tsipras
In office 23 September 2015 – 5 November 2016
Personal details
Political party	Syriza
Alma mater	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Website	www.vernardakis.gr

Christoforos Vernardakis (Greek: Χριστόφορος Βερναρδάκης) is a Greek academic who served as a Minister of State in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, from 2016 to 2019. From 2015 to 2016, he served as Alternate Minister of Administrative Reform in the same Cabinet. He is an MP for Athens A constituency.

Biography

Vernardakis studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and graduated with a BA in political science, and afterwards studied in France, taking diplomas at the Sorbonne before returning to the University of Athens to take his PhD in 1995. In 1993, he founded the polling organisation VPRC, and became its president in 2004. After a term as a lecturer at the University of Crete (2004-2009), he became an assistant professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the January 2015 Greek legislative election he stood election for Athens A and was seated with Syriza without election.