Spilios Livanos is an MP for Nea Dimokratia (ND) representing the people of Aetoloakarnania. He served as Minister of Rural Development and Food. Prior to that as ND’s Parliamentary Spokesman. Through the years 2009 and 2015 he served as General Secretary and deputy general for Political and Strategic Planning of ND. In 2016 he was appointed Special Counselor for Entrepreneurship to the President of ND, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis. In his two terms as an MP he sat on the Standing Parliamentary Committees of “Defense and Diplomacy”, “Economic Affairs”, “Cultural and Educational Affairs”, “Public Administration, Public Order and Justice” and the special P.C.’s of “General Financial Balance Sheet” and “State Budget Implantation”. Spilios Livanos was appointed Head of the Greek Delegation of the NATO PA on the 9th of March 2022. Apart from his commitment to public service he was employed to the EU Commission ΄s Social Fund, worked on corporate development for private enterprises and in 2002 he found and chaired a private Construction and Real Estate company which runs until today. He received a BA in Politics and Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA and an MA in International Relations from Reading University, UK. He speaks fluently English and French. He is married and father of three children.