Domna Michailidou

Domna Maria Michailidou (; born 13 November 1987) is a Greek economist and a Member of Parliament for Piraeus with the New Democracy party. She currently serves as Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Upon assuming office, she became the first Greek woman to hold a ministerial position while pregnant.

She has previously held the positions of Minister of Labour and Social Security (2024), Deputy Minister of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports (2023–2024), and Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (2019–2023).

Biography Michailidou is an academic economist working on economic development, financial crises and public finances. She was previously an adviser to New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on issues related to structural reforms, macroeconomic growth and financial markets.

Since 2014, Michailidou has also been a lecturer in the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge where she teaches topics related to finance and development, private and public debt and government regulation. She has worked for the OECD in Paris and Athens as an economist and a competition expert. Michailidou has also taught at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and University College London's School of Public Policy. Her work has also appeared in academic journals, institutional reports and the popular press. She holds an MPhil and a PhD in Financial and Development Economics from the University of Cambridge. and was elected Member of Parliament in the elections of June 2023 (Piraeus A) with New Democracy.

Οn 8 July 2019, Domna Michailidou served as the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, a post she would hold until 25 May 2023. From 27 June 2023 until 4 January 2024, she served as Deputy Minister of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports. On 4 January 2024, she served briefly as Minister for Labour and Social Welfare until 14 June 2024.

Since 15 March 2025, she serves as Minister for Social Cohesion and Family Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Jonathan Kennedy and Domna Michailidou (2016). "Rethinking Humanitarian Aid in Civil Wars," Project Syndicate Jonathan Kennedy and Domna Michailidou (2016): "The politics of polio eradication," Project Syndicate [Translated into 7 languages and republished in a variety of newspapers including: El Pais (Spain), L'Orient le Jour (Lebanon), Gulf Times (Qatar), Al Shabiba (Oman), Al Bayan and Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates), Arab News (Saudi Arabia), Le Quotidien d'Oran (Algeria), The Reporter (Ethiopia), Mareeg (Somalia), Outlook Afghanistan (Afghanistan), Postimees (Estonia), Financial Mirror (Cyprus), Khmer Times (Cambodia), AZERNEWS (Azerbaijan), Expreso (Ecuador)]