Minister for Foreign Affairs (Greece)


The Minister for Foreign Affairs is the senior minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece. The incumbent Minister for Foreign Affairs is Nikos Dendias of New Democracy.

Ministers for Foreign Affairs since 1974

PhotoNameTook OfficeLeft Office Party
George Mavros24 July 19749 October 1974Centre Union
Dimitrios Bitsios17 October 197420 November 1977New Democracy
Panagiotis Papaligouras29 November 197710 May 1978New Democracy
George Rallis10 May 197810 May 1980New Democracy
Konstantinos Mitsotakis10 May 198021 October 1981New Democracy
Ioannis Charalambopoulos21 October 198126 July 1985PASOK
Karolos Papoulias26 July 19852 July 1989PASOK
Tzannis Tzannetakis2 July 198912 October 1989New Democracy
Georgios Papoulias12 October 198923 November 1989Independent
Antonis Samaras23 November 198916 February 1990New Democracy
Georgios Papoulias16 February 199011 April 1990Independent
Antonis Samaras11 April 199014 April 1992New Democracy
Konstantinos Mitsotakis14 April 19927 August 1992New Democracy
Michalis Papakonstantinou7 August 199213 October 1993New Democracy
Karolos Papoulias13 October 199322 January 1996PASOK
Theodoros Pangalos22 January 199618 February 1999PASOK
George Papandreou18 February 199913 February 2004PASOK
Tasos Giannitsis13 February 200410 March 2004PASOK
Petros Molyviatis10 March 200415 February 2006New Democracy
Dora Bakoyannis15 February 20067 October 2009New Democracy
George Papandreou7 October 20097 September 2010PASOK
Dimitris Droutsas7 September 201017 June 2011PASOK
Stavros Lambrinidis17 June 201111 November 2011PASOK
Stavros Dimas11 November 201117 May 2012New Democracy
Petros Molyviatis17 May 201221 June 2012New Democracy
Dimitris Avramopoulos21 June 201225 June 2013New Democracy
Evangelos Venizelos25 June 201327 January 2015PASOK
Nikos Kotzias27 January 201527 August 2015Syriza
Petros Molyviatis28 August 201521 September 2015New Democracy
Nikos Kotzias23 September 201520 October 2018Syriza
Alexis Tsipras 20 October 201815 February 2019Syriza
Georgios Katrougalos15 February 20199 July 2019Syriza
Nikos Dendias9 July 2019IncumbentNew Democracy