Dimitris Avramopoulos is a Member of the Hellenic Parliament and a former European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship (2014–2019). He has served as Minister of National Defence (two terms), Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Health and Social Solidarity, Minister of Tourism Development, as well as Mayor of Athens for two consecutive terms. He was repeatedly elected to Parliament with the New Democracy party (1993, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2023).

Before entering active politics, he served in the Diplomatic Service (1980–1993) as Special Diplomatic Adviser and Director of the Diplomatic Office of the President of New Democracy and Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Consul of Greece in Liège (Belgium) and Geneva (Switzerland).

He studied Public Law and Political Science at the Law School of the University of Athens and pursued postgraduate studies at the Institute for European Studies of ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles). He holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University (New York), Drexel University (Philadelphia), Kingston University (London) and Deree (Athens), and is an Honorary Professor–Advisor at the School of International Studies of Peking University, the State Academy of Technological Sciences in Moscow, and the European College of Parma.

He was born in Athens in 1953 and hails from Arcadia and Ilia. He served in the Hellenic Air Force (1978–1980), in Athens and at Greece’s Permanent Delegation to NATO in Brussels. He is the father of two sons, Philippos and Iasonas, and speaks English, French and Italian.