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Maria-Alexandra Kefala
Greece
Deputy Minister of Social Cohesion and Family
Biography
Ms Maria Alexandra Kefala, is Deputy Minister of Social Cohesion and Family, and Member of the Hellenic Parliament. She is a physician by profession specialising in pediatrics. She is a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Ioannina and holds a master's degree from the National School of Public Health in "Health Promotion of Children and Adolescents". She was elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time in July 2019 and re-elected in the recent elections (July 2023). She speaks English, French and German.
She was Secretary of the Hellenic Parliament during the period 2019-2023. From 2019 until 2022, she participated as a member of the "Special Standing Committee on Equality, Youth and Human Rights", the "Sub-Committee on the Issues of Persons with Disabilities" and the "Sub-Committee on Combating Human Trafficking and Exploitation" of the Parliament, of which she assumed the presidency from October 2022 until April 2023.
She was also a member of the "Standing Committee on Social Affairs" of the Parliament. At the same time, she was elected as Vice-President of the Economic, Commercial and Fiscal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Cooperation Organisation. During the 2019-2023 parliamentary term, she was Vice-President of the "Greece-Albania" Friendship Parliamentary Group and member of Friendship groups "Greece-USA", "Greece-Qatar", "Greece-North Macedonia", "Greece-Armenia" and "Greece-Egypt".
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