Georgios Daskalakis

Georgios P. Daskalakis (; 12 July 1936 – 16 July 2022) was a Greek businessman, trade unionist, and politician who served in the Hellenic Parliament from 1981 until 1996 and from 2000 until 2004. Daskalakis was one of the co-founders of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.

Biography Daskalakis was born in the town of Lagadia, Arcadia in the Kingdom of Greece on 12 July 1936. He studied economics at the Supreme School of Economics and Business. During his youth, Daskalakis helped organize the union movement within insurance companies, and he became a political and union activist. Daskalakis was later part of the opposition against the Greek junta. After the fall of the junta in 1974, Daskalakis, a close associate of Andreas Papandreou, co-founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). In 1975, he also founded PASKE, the trade unionist faction of PASOK. From 1982 until 1985, he was a member of the executive committee of PASOK.

Daskalakis was an executive at a private insurance company until 1981, when he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament as a member of PASOK, representing the Athens A constituency. From 1997 until 2000, Daskalakis served as the chairman of the board of directors at the General Bank of Greece.

Daskalakis was married to Maria Kornaraki and had 2 daughters. He died on 16 July 2022.