The Nicosia District Assembly of the Ecologists 'Movement – Citizens' Cooperation, presented at its session and approved the list of candidates for the Nicosia province for the May 2021 parliamentary elections.
According to an announcement, the 20 candidates of the Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation in Nicosia are:
1. Stavros Ioannou Alampritis ( SYMEA )
Stavros Ioannou Alampritis was born on August 5, 1955 in the village of Alhambra in the province of Nicosia and is the eldest son of a family of ten. He served his homeland in 1974 while fighting in Kyrenia. He is a mechanical engineer (HND) and holds a degree in Industry Supervisor.
He worked for 10 years as Production Manager in a metallurgical plant. In 1985 he started his own business which is now continued by his family. A life dedicated to the commons on a non-profit basis. He served as President of SKE. and member of the S.P.E. Alhambra.
He has been the President of the Parents' Associations at all levels of education. He has been leading small family businesses in the struggle for survival and justification for twelve years. He is the Founder and President of the Coalition of Small Businesses and the Self-Employed (SY.M.E.A.).
He was also the Founder and President of the SIMAIA Social Movement, which participated in the 2016 Parliamentary Elections with a respectable result. The SIMAIA Social Movement joined the Ecologists 'Movement and is the Part of Citizens' Cooperation.
Stavros I. Alampritis is a member of the Political Committee, a member of the Executive Secretariat and Head of the Economic Policy Committee of the Ecologists 'Movement – Citizens' Cooperation. He is married to Elisabeth Ioannou, and is a proud father and grandfather of 3 children and 2 grandchildren.
2. Alexandra Attalidou (Collaborator)
He was born on December 25, 1958 in Kakopetria and lives permanently in Nicosia.
He studied Communication and Public Relations, and holds a Master's Degree in European Administration (MBA) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles: He also holds a Diploma in Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets, a Diploma in Tourism and a Guide Diploma.
He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM UK), the Society of Technical Analysts (STA UK), the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA), and an Accredited Member (Advanced) of the Cyprus Capital Market.
He is Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Journalistic Ethics and a Member of the Board of the Mediterranean Institute for Gender Studies.
From 2008-2020 she served as Spokesperson of the European Parliament Office in Cyprus, and between 2013-2015 as Deputy Head. She also worked as Director of Communications at the University of Nicosia (2004-2007), as a Stock Exchange Representative of Global Capital Ltd (2000-2004) and at the Cyprus Tourism Organization. From 1991 – 2000 he was absent abroad.
He speaks English and French.
An activist she has worked since a very young age, and has served as a member of many human rights and environmental organizations. She is a founding member of the organization “Friends of Akamas” but a milestone in her life is her participation in the Movement “Women Return” as a member of the Organizing Committee that organized the three marches that broke the dividing line of Cyprus.
She is an ardent supporter of the empowerment of civil society as the only path to modernization, progress and democracy.
3. Adonis Yagou
Adonis Yagou is the Second Vice President of the Ecologists 'Movement – Citizens' Cooperation and a member of the Movement since its foundation. He was born in Nicosia in 1964 and comes from the occupied Gerolakko.
He studied Business Administration and Finance in New York. He is engaged in business in the financial sector and in the development of the sector of start-ups and innovative enterprises. He was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Development Land Organization for 10 years.
As an ecologist and animal lover he has shown intense environmental activity.
4. Andreas Eleftheriadis (Course of Change)
He was born in Vyzakia on 7/31/1956 and at the age of 13 his family moved to Nicosia. He is married to Sylvana Grigoriou and they have a daughter, Iro. He graduated from the Grammar School in Nicosia and after his military service studied at Pace University in New York, Business Administration at Bachelor's (BBA) and Postgraduate (MBA) level.
In addition to his other professional occupations, from 1981, he began teaching night classes at Cyprus College. In 1983 he took over the reactivation and management of Cyprus College, which after the Turkish invasion and occupation of its buildings, operated with only one program / department with about 15 night students in a room of the Grammar School. With a vision of establishing a high-level academic institution and transforming it into a private university, he began the long journey, as he had to fight against the negativity of the Ministry of Education.
On his own initiative, the Association of Higher Education Institutions of Cyprus (SIAEK) was founded in 1985, which pioneered the creation of a legal framework for the establishment, operation and evaluation of private higher education institutions and later private universities. He was President of SIAEK for a number of years until the establishment of the first private universities in 2007.
He served as G.D. and later President of Cyprus College from 1983 to 2016. He also served as President of the European University of Cyprus (EPC), from its inception until his departure in 2016, when the EPC operated on its own premises, with 5 Academic Schools, more than 50 study programs, 400+ academic and administrative staff and over 6000 students.
For his overall contribution to the development of private higher education in Cyprus, in 1993 the University of New Haven, USA, honored him by awarding him an Honorary Doctorate (Hons.D) and in 2014 the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), the honored with the Business Leader Award – Services Sector.
He was President of the European Assessment Body European Council for Business Education, National Representative of the European Academic and Research Network, and for a number of years a member of the Research Promotion Foundation.
In the early 1990s, he was one of the founders of Spidernet Services Ltd, an Internet Service Provider, and was a member of the Board for a number of years. of Primetel Plc.
Since 2016, it has been active in the Energy sector, participating in various projects related to Renewable Energy Sources and Natural Gas.
5. George Iliadis
Child of a large family, born on September 2, 1985 in Nicosia. From his early teens, he worked in a variety of livelihoods, up to the day he served his military service as an aircraft engineer. As a pupil and student, he played an important active role in the struggles for the rights of the youth, society and our country.
He was involved in music, art and sports, but it was his protection of the environment and his love for nature that ultimately won him over.
He studied Forestry and Natural Environment Management with postgraduate studies in Environmental Education and Sustainable Development. He is a recognized Chief Inspector of Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001) and a certified Higher Level Trainer (EEK 5). He also holds a diploma in Effective Event Management.
He participates as an expert in National Committees on Environment and Transport and is a member of the Federation of Environmental Organizations of Cyprus, where he was a Scientific Associate for 4 years. At the same time, he is the General Secretary of the Coalition of Small Enterprises and Self-Employed (SY.MEA), Spokesperson of the Pancyprian Ecological Agricultural Association and a member of the Board of the Ecological Movement. For 7 years he has been invited to schools, town halls and other organized groups on a Pancyprian basis, for lectures on environmental and social issues.
For the last 5 years, he has been a Parliamentary Associate in the Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation, where he is also a member of the central committee.
6. Antonia Theodosiou
Antonia Theodosiou is an Architect specializing in the restoration of historical monuments, an Environmental Engineer and a Guide. Activist since her student years in Germany in peace and green movements. An active member of the Friends of Akamas and the Ecological Movement, he was President of the Federation of Environmental Organizations of Cyprus (OPOK), which he represented at the European Environment Office in Brussels and the Principled Convention on Access to Information and Justice in Environmental Matters. quality of life. Represents OPOK in the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development, as well as as an expert in the Cyprus Energy Office. He participated in mobilizations as a representative of environmental organizations for environmental and cultural issues and in committees of the Cypriot and European parliaments, submitting opinions and reports. He also participated in the ETEK Environment Committee. Collaborated with the European Parliament Office in Cyprus and with MEPs on environmental protection, energy and Natura2000 site management. He is Vice-President of the International Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Dry Stone Landscape and Vice-President of the International Council of Monuments and Sites ICOMOS – Cyprus Branch, which represents the International Scientific Committee for Earthly Architecture ISCEAH. Collaborated with the National Commission UNESCO for the successful inclusion of the Drystone Technique in the World List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
For five years she was Akama Project Management Plan Manager on a contract basis with the Department of Environment. In collaboration with the Akama communities and the competent services, it established a Sustainable Development Plan of the region, while it started the implementation of Projects that have synergy with the protection objectives of the Hersonissos and contribute to the socio-economic development of the communities.
Participates in the writing of publications and exhibitions on the nature, architecture, cultural landscape and archeology of the Akama Peninsula, as well as on traditionally man-made cultural dry stone landscape.
Her participation in conferences in Cyprus and abroad on environmental and cultural issues is rich.
A founding member of the Ecologists' Movement, he participated in its registration in the European Green Party and then became active outside the Movement, but remained in close cooperation.
It maintains an office of architecture and environment. She received Cypriot and European awards from Europa Nostra, the Council of Europe, the European Commission / ICOMOS and the Association of Civil Engineers and Architects for her architectural work on the preservation and restoration of monuments. and took part in the Biennale of Art and Architecture.
7. Charalambos Theopemptou
Charalambos Theopemptou was born in Aglantzia on November 26, 1955. He speaks, in addition to Greek, English. He studied electronic engineering at the City University of London.
In 1986 he was appointed lecturer at the Higher Technological Institute (ATI). In March 2013 he was employed as a lecturer at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology of the Cyprus University of Technology.
He is a widow and has two sons. His wife was Evi Theopemptou, the first president of the Ecologists' Movement.
In 1990 he started to get involved with the environmental organization Ecological Movement of Cyprus, which at that time had developed a very strong action. In 1996, together with other members of the Ecological Movement, he signed the founding statute which created the Movement of Environmentalists in which he was elected to various bodies.
In July 2006 he was appointed by the President of the Republic Tassos Papadopoulos as the first Environment Commissioner of Cyprus. With his election to the presidency, the President of the Republic, Dimitris Christofias, in March 2008 reappointed him to the post of Environment Commissioner, a position he held until the end of his term in government in February 2013. His duties included submitting environmental views. issues discussed in the Council of Ministers of Cyprus, the investigation, coordination and advice to Public Authorities and the private sector on issues within its competence.
He was elected MP in the 2016 parliamentary elections in the Nicosia Electoral District with the Movement of Ecologists-Citizens' Cooperation for the PPP Parliamentary Term.
As a Member of Parliament, he is Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Parliamentary Committee on Transport, Communications and Works and the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Culture. In addition, he is a member of the Parliamentary delegation to the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.
On July 26, 2020, he was declared the non-candidate president of the Ecologists 'Movement-Citizens' Cooperation.
8. Maria Kola
He was born in Nicosia in 1990 and comes from Paleometocho. He graduated from the Regional High School of Paliometocho M. Koutsofta – A. Panagidi. She is a graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction Engineering of the University of Cyprus. He is pursuing postgraduate studies at the University of UCLAN Cyprus in the Department of Data Analysis, a field in which he has been working professionally for the last 10 years.
From a very young age, just 5 years old, she started her voluntary activity through the Cyprus Scout Corps, where she remains active until today as the Leader of the Scout Team in the 288th Scout System of the Old Shareholder. Since 2012 he is an active member of the Youth Ecologists (NE.O.I.), while between the years 2014 – 2018 he was the General Secretary of NE.OI. In the period 2013 – 2015 she was elected Vice President B 'in the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Youth Council, where during her term she was active in promoting Structured Dialogue, both at national and European level, as well as in promoting the active involvement of young people in the public. During the period 2015-2017 he was selected in the Cypriot delegation for the Commonwealth Countries Youth Forum.
For two consecutive years (2016-2017) he participated in the program of the Parliament of the Young Representatives where he had a role as head of the Environment Committee. At the same time, in the period 2016-2017, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG). Since 2017 she holds the position of Program Implementer in the Africa-Europe Committee of the Commonwealth Youth Council. Since 2018 he participates in the Advisory Body of the Cyprus Youth Council while from 2019 he participates in the respective advisory Body of the Federation of Young European Greens. From 2018 until today, she has been elected General Secretary of the Women's Movement of Ecologists (GYKO) while at the same time she coordinates the Secretariat of International Relations of the Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation. Since October 2019 she is Ambassador of One Young World together with thousands of young people from all over the world.
All this with a single purpose, to leave the world a little better than it found it!
9. Lea Maleni (Collaborating)
Born in Nicosia in 1973. Actor and Director with activist social action. He founded the Persona Theater Group, with a variety of award-winning performances. Graduate of the National Theater Drama School, Queen Margaret University (BA in Performing Arts) and Goldsmiths College, University of London (Master in Directing).
She was honored with the THOK-Melina Mercouri Acting Award, the Creator of the Year award by Madame Figaro and with numerous other awards and nominations for directing. Since 2011 she is also a candidate for the European Award “New Theatrical Realities” of the European Premio Theater Awards. She taught Acting at the “Vladimiros Kafkaridis” Higher Drama School and at the Intercollege School of Acting.
At the same time, she was a writer's guide in the PLAY Creative Theatrical Writing program (2012-2018) and a theater animator. In 2013 he undertook the general coordination of the first all-day solidarity concert “Cyprus Aid” for the collection of food and basic necessities, while leading the protest marches against the cutting of deposits.
In 2020, after the outbreak of the pandemic, he created the informal platform “Artists of Cyprus” and with the valuable cooperation of other organized bodies jointly claimed, among other things, the financial support of artists and Cultural Institutions, the establishment of the Artist and the creation of a special social welfare plan, taking into account the special nature of the work of the professions of the Arts.
He is a member of the 15-member Advisory Committee for the Ensuring of the Artist's Status and a member of the Parallel Parliament for Culture.
Finally, she is a proud mother of four stray quadrupeds.
10. Panagiotis Manolis
He was born in Palaichori Orini in 1951, the first child of a family of seven. He experienced poverty and struggle from a young child. He graduated from the Frederic Technical School and the School of Economics with a degree in Home Appliance Repair.
He has been working since the age of 20, initially in a company, as a technician of electrical and electronic home appliances. He maintained a home appliance repair shop for the last 15 years, until his retirement. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Ecologists 'Movement – Citizens' Cooperation and participates as an outsider of the Nicosia District Committee. He was elected Municipal Councilor of Strovolos in 2011 and is Chairman of the Environment and Energy Committee of the Municipality.
He was a member of the Parents' Association and is a tourism ambassador of the Cyprus Organization of Cyprus. He is a fan of cycling and is his main means of transportation for his daily activities. He is married to Eurydice Kazamia-Manoli, assistant head of a children's club, and is the father of two children, Stelios and Raphael.
11. Melina Menelaou
Melina Menelaou was born in 1968 in Mammari, Nicosia District, where she still lives today. He studied Biological Sciences (with an emphasis on Ecology) and Natural Resource Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a Master's Degree in Management and Public Administration from the Mediterranean Institute of Management.
He worked in a Hormone Laboratory, Food, Beverage & Environmental Chemistry and as a Medical Visitor. Since 2004 he has been working in the Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources & Environment and since 2013 he has been seconded to the Department of Environment of the same Ministry in the Sector of Climate Change. He has been a special member of the Scientific Committee for Nature in accordance with the Law on Protection and Management of Nature and Wildlife (No. 153 (I) / 2003).
He has been active since 1993 in the environmental organization Ecological Movement of Cyprus and is a founding member of the Movement of Environmentalists, the Youth of Ecologists and the Women's Movement of Ecologists. He participated in all parliamentary contests since 1996 as a candidate for MP in the Nicosia District. He remains an active member and member of the Political Committee of the Ecologists 'Movement – Citizens' Cooperation.
12. Anthi Mouzouri
Anthi Mouzouri was born in Nicosia and is a graduate of economics from the Lyceum of Kykkos B. Later she studied Tourism Business. He has worked in several companies related to the Tourism sector. Since 2004 he has been working in the Department of Civil Aviation as an Air Traffic Officer.
Growing up in an animal-friendly family, she learned from an early age to love animals and nature. Always living with pets, receiving this selfless invaluable love they offer you, the values of humanity, ecological conscience, moral responsibility, altruism were cultivated.
Her love for animals pushed her to join the Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation and specifically in the Action Group for animals. A group that deals with animal welfare and handling complaints of animal abuse and trying to resolve them.
Her concern is to fight as much as she can to defend the rights of animals, and to become their voice. The culture of a state is shown by the way it treats animals, and it will strive to succeed.
13. Efi Xanthou
Efi Xanthou was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1981.
He was repatriated in 1989 and settled in Agioi Trimithia, Nicosia. Today she lives with her husband Lambros Lambrou, a teacher from Assia, and their eight-year-old son in Aglantzia. He is a Political Scientist (University of Cyprus) with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from CIIM.
A child of a large family, he has been working since the age of 18. Today she works as a parliamentary associate.
She is the Vice President of the Ecologists-Citizens' Cooperation Movement. He has represented the Movement in international conferences and regular congresses of the European Green Party since 2002.
She was General Secretary of the Youth Ecologists, Secretary of Fundraising for the Federation of Young European Greens and Public Relations Officer of the Cyprus Youth Council.
He was also a municipal councilor in the Municipality of Aglantzia.
14. Adonis Papakonstantinou (Course of Change)
Adonis M. Papakonstantinou was born in Nicosia in 1953. He is a graduate of the English School. In 1974 he served his military service as deputy commander of a unit and took part in operations to repel Turkish invaders. He studied Computer Science and Statistics at Queen Mary in London.
In 1977 he returned to Cyprus where he was employed by an American multinational IT company. Until 2003 he served in various managerial positions until the position of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Boards. The region under its administration numbered 55 countries with a turnover of about $ 200 million and a thousand employees.
He trained at the internationally renowned senior executive program at Columbia University New York.
From 2003 until today he is the Managing Partner of an Australian multinational company in the field of real estate. For the last three years, he has also been the President of the Cyprus Labor Disputes Court.
After 2013, he was Chairman of the Board. of the following organizations: JCC Payment Systems, Laiki Financial Service, Laiki Capital and CLR Investment Fund. He was also a member of the Board. of Bank of Cyprus, BOC Channel Islands, KERMIA LTD, EUROLIFE, TEFKROS FUND CHANNEL ISLANDS, as well as a member of the board of trustees of the Oncology Center of TC.
From April 2013 until today he is the President of the Depositors Association of Laiki Bank (SYKALA). He is married to Eleni and they have a daughter Christina.
15 . Michalis Paraskeva (Collaborator)
I was born on November 17, 1976 in Nicosia, where I live with my wife, teacher and songwriter Stella Stylianou.
I graduated in 1994 from the Acropolis High School.
After completing my military service as a Reserve Infantry Officer, in 1996 I went to my favorite Thessaloniki for my studies at the Law Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
From a very young age I was involved in sports and cycling championships with the APOEL team, culminating in 1993 when I became Junior Champion, as well as as a member of the National Cyprus I participated in international competitions.
In Thessaloniki, I developed a very strong political action, mainly in relation to the Cyprus issue, with the crowning of the practical attempt to put pressure on Turkey by filing appeals against it in the ECtHR in the style of the Loizidou case in 1998 with the cooperation of my professor, Constitutionalist Demosthenes Tsourkas.
Since 2005 I maintain my own law firm in Nicosia as a self-employed person and I am very active in the legal field in all branches of law.
I have been actively involved in human rights cases and have developed strong political / social action in many areas, such as the rights of refugees, immigrants, protection against police violence, where I participated in an initiative group in 2009, environmental protection with my participation in an initiative group in 2010 of the illegal and environmentally dangerous construction of a cathedral in the center of the old town of Nicosia.
My biggest social and political action has been the fight for the salvation of the Social Security Fund since 2013, which culminated during my trial for political disobedience in 2015, where hundreds of our fellow citizens became active along with the Social Control Initiative. Social Security Fund that we created in 2014 and continues to this day.
In 2017, in collaboration with the Ecologists, we drafted a relevant bill amending the law on Social Insurance, which was submitted by the Ecologists and has been pending in parliament ever since.
In 2014, as a lawyer for Hampi Winter from Xylofagou, I took action against the illegal courts and police of the British Bases, representing Hampi Winter before the so-called base court itself, but also by registering Quo Warranto before the Supreme Court. illegal formations according to the Supreme Court itself and the ECtHR.
In 2015, at a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, our positions were submitted and since then, unfortunately, relevant actions are pending.
The great school that was the struggle for the salvation of the TKA taught me that unfortunately the Cypriot society does not seem willing to organize itself and take its own destiny into its own hands through direct democratic processes, so when and finally in 2017 I was called to I pay the high cost of my choices on many levels, I decided that the only way to achieve change is with where you are where the decisions are made.
This is what pushes and activates me and now, together with the ecologists movement that we have already participated in common struggles, to be where the decisions are made, so that I can have the opportunity to take substantial actions and change things practically for good of society.
16 . Nikos Pavlidis
Lawyer Nikos Pavlidis was born in 1975 in Nicosia. His father came from the occupied Gerolakko. He grew up and lived all his life in Cyprus, in Kaimakli, where he still lives. After his military service, he went to Sydney where he obtained degrees in Economics and Law with distinction and later with a scholarship in London, where he had postgraduate studies in finance. He has worked in Sydney, London and since 2003, in the public and private sectors.
Nikos Pavlidis has been active in the Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation since 2011 and for the last three years he has been the First Vice President of the Movement. He is the coordinator of the thematic committee of the Cyprus Movement and actively participates in a number of thematic committees of the Movement, including the committee on legal issues, the committee on economic policy, international relations and the ad hoc committee on combating corruption in the Police.
Nikos Pavlidis has been representing the Movement in international forums and meetings for a number of years. It maintains excellent relations with the green parties of Europe and the European Green Party based in Brussels. He represented the Movement in shaping the manifesto of the European Green Party for the last European elections. He was one of the pioneers in activating the Mediterranean network of green parties. Its objectives include the practical adoption and implementation in Cyprus of best ecological and environmental policies and practices that have become the property of many years, of northern and western European countries, improving the living standards of citizens, promoting transparency and participatory democracy, and effectively fighting corruption.
17. Alexia Sakadaki
Alexia Sakadaki comes from Paleochori and grew up in Lakatamia, Nicosia.
He studied Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus, with a degree in Sociology and a secondary degree in Political Science. He has a master's degree in International Relations and European Studies.
She is a member of the Political Committee of the Ecologists 'Movement – Citizens' Cooperation and Deputy Secretary General of the Women's Movement of Ecologists. He was Secretary General of the Youth Ecologists for two terms. As a member of the Committee on International Relations since 2009 he develops European action and represents the Movement in international and regular conferences of the European Green Party. She is the coordinator of the Mediterranean Network of Greens and the coordinator of the social policy office of the Ecologists 'Movement – Citizens' Cooperation.
She is married and has a daughter.
18. Dr. Marios Taramidis (Collaborator)
He was born in Nicosia on November 29, 1965. A well-known dentist with a significant public presence and special sensitivity for Culture, Dr. Marios Taramidis is a member of the General Dental Council in the United Kingdom, a member of the European Periodontal Society and a Fellow of the British Council of Consmetic Dentistry .
He studied Dentistry at the University of Freiburg, Germany and specialized as a Periodontist and Prosthodontist in Sweden. In 1994 he received his master's degree from Lund University and taught at Loma Linda University in California, USA.
In 1995 he founded the Nicosia Dental Polyclinic in Nicosia together with his late father, Dr. George Taramidis. He is concerned with health issues and remains active both in organized groups and through articles. He is the founder and member of the Periodontal Society of Cyprus, of which he was the first president.
In 2012 he started the institution of the Open Day Clinic where for 18 months he opened the doors of his clinic one day a month to patients who needed dental care and could not afford it.
He successfully organized a dental mission in 2009 for the recovery of 700 orphans in Kenya with the Sophia Foundation for Children, the organization for children in Cyprus and Kenya, of which he was vice president for eight years.
He is an ardent supporter of Culture, a collector of works of art and a sponsor of theatrical and film productions.
He has published four poetry collections and the most recent one entitled “Night Walks” (2018) was translated into English by the Greek poet Katerina Angelaki-Rook. He is fluent in Greek as well as English and German.
His love for photography traveled him to 110 countries. His latest photographic work is called “The Known Unknown”, a photo album with personalities from 35 countries, lighthouse people, each in his own field.
19. Fotos Fotiadis (Course of Change)
He was born in Nicosia. He graduated from the Pancyprian High School and studied with a scholarship at the Drama School of the National Theater of Greece. He trained in directing in Britain on a scholarship, where the British Council organized a special program “attachments” for him in the major British theaters, such as the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theater. Nottingham Playhouse, et al. He traveled to various countries (Bulgaria, Russia, South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, France) and participated in international theatrical conferences.
He played leading roles in theater, television and radio and successfully directed many plays. He also directed “Hoifores”, “Bacches”, “Oedipus at Colonus” and “Medea” in Britain. He worked at the National Theater of Greece, the THOK and other theaters. In 1982 he received the award for Direction and Best Performance with the play “The Legend of Akrita” at the Panhellenic Festival of Ithaca.
In 1998 he directed and starred in Goethe's “Iphigenia in Taurus” in Cyprus and Thessaloniki, under the auspices of the Goethe Institute. He was also a visiting professor for 2 years at the University of Cardiff School of Theater in Wales. In October and November 1999, at the invitation of Sydney, Australia, he directed and presented the play “Flesh and Germ”. At the same time he continues his visits abroad for performances entitled “Man and Gods”, such as: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg, Britain, Belarus (Minsk – where he won the first prize in the international competition “One Man Show »), Germany. Fotos Fotiadis was: President and General Secretary of the Cyprus Actors 'Association, General Secretary of the RIK Employees' Union, General Secretary of the Cyprus Center of the International Theater Institute. He is a member of the Board. of the Association of Securities Holders.
20. Andreas Hasapopoulos (Collaborator)
Andreas Hasapopoulos was born in Nicosia in 1953. He holds a degree in Mechanical-Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He worked from 1979 until the beginning of 1993 in the private sector as a Consulting Engineer.
In February 1993 he was appointed to the Audit Office of the Republic, from which he retired in January 2018, holding the position of Technical Audit Director. During his service in the public sector, he was responsible for Auditing the contracts of Works, Services and Procurement of the Public and Semi-public sector as well as of the Local Government Authorities. Since his position in the Audit Office, he has made a significant contribution to the fight against corruption and the revelation of major scandals.
After his retirement, he privatizes, providing Arbitration and consulting services for disputes in works and services contracts.
In June 2018, he acquired the professional title of ETEK Referee.
He is married to Natasha Cleanthous and has two adult children.
