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Calliope Spanou

Greek university professor, former Greek Ombudsman

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About Calliope Spanou

Calliope Spanou was a Greek university teacher and political scientist.

Calliope Spanou is a Greek academic who served from 2011 to 2015 as the Greek Ombudsman. She is currently a professor of administrative science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. On 23 April 2023, she was sworn in as Minister for the Interior in a caretaker capacity, tasked with overseeing the election due to be held on 21 May.

Education Spanou studied public law and political science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and went on to study administrative science (Doctorat d'État) at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens, France. During her university studies she was awarded two scholarships: one from the M. Stassinopoulos Foundation and another from the Ministry of National Economy Technical Cooperation Programme (ΝΑΤΟ). Her doctoral dissertation was honoured by the French government with a publishing allowance. Speaking later of her time in France, she said: "You were a second-class person. The way they treated you – in their minds, we were immigrants." She was elected as Ombudsman by the Hellenic Parliament on 13 May 2011 and took office on 13 July 2011.

Personal life Spanou is married to a German economist, Jens Bastian.

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Important facts

Nationality
Education
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Picardie Jules Verne, University of Athens
Positions held
Ombudsman, Greek Minister of the Interior
Employers
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Panthéon-Assas University Paris, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

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Greek university professor, former Greek Ombudsman

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Calliope Spanou was a university teacher and political scientist.

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Calliope Spanou was Greek.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Calliope Spanou

· Wikidata: Q22277244

· DBpedia: Calliope Spanou

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