Former Presidents
2019-2023Ioannis Sarmas
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Ioannis Sarmas2019-2023
Year of birth 1957. Married (1987), two children (1989,1990).
Law studies at the University of Athens (1975-1979), graded excellent, first in the series of graduates..
Scholarships from the French Government and the Foundation of State Scholarships for postgraduate studies..
Post-graduate degrees (DEA) from Paris II University in criminal law (1980-1981), public law (1982-1983) and public finance (1983-1985)..
Doctoral thesis in the law of individual rights from the University of Paris II (1981-1985, grade très honorable).
Military service in the Hellenic Air Force as a probationary officer (1984-1986).
Participation in the selection competitions for judicial officers of the Council of State and the National School of Public Administration (year 1986 and both, highest score among the candidates in both competitions).
Judge of the Council of State (1987-1993).2015-2019Androniki Theotokatou
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Androniki Theotokatou2015-2019
The Andronikis Theotokatu is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens. She attended special seminars in criminology and criminal treatment of dependent persons, as well as a two-year seminar in political philosophy. She entered the judiciary in the year 1983 in the direction of Civil-Criminal Justice and served at the Court of First Instance of Athens for about twelve years. As a First Judge, he participated in a writing group, which edited and recorded Supreme Court jurisprudence on civil-commercial cases. She was transferred to the Court of Auditors in 1995 to the rank of Paredros. In the year 2002 he was promoted to Councilor. She taught the Pension Law course at the National School of Judicial Officers for approximately seven teaching periods. In 2010, she was selected as the Director of Training at the School of Judges, where she remained for a year and a half. In November 2010, she was promoted to Vice-President of the Court of Auditors and assumed the presidency of its VII and V Sections. She was President of the Association of Judicial Officers of the Court of Auditors for two consecutive terms. She speaks English and French.
2014-2015Nikolaos Aggelaras
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Nikolaos Aggelaras2014-2015
Born at Volos and studied at 22nd Elementary School and at 1st High School (classical section) of Volos. He is a graduate of the School of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a Master's Degree in Fiscal and Administrative Law, which he received with honors. He has prepared the following scientific works related to Fiscal, Constitutional and Administrative Law: "The profit from overvaluation of fixed capital", "The right to provide judicial protection (article 20 par. 1 of the Constitution)", "The right to be heard (Article 20 par. 2 of the Constitution)", "The imposition of pre-collection of a disputed tax rate", "Cancellation of invalid administrative acts", "Legal developments in the city plan extension levy, cleaning and lighting fees and transient residents' fees", "Compatibility of the provisions of articles 2 par. 2 and 3 par. 2 of Law 3021/2002 with the Constitution", "Incompatible properties of Article 2 par. 3 of Law 3021/2002 and Community Law", "The contemporary problematic of provisional enforceability against the Greek State", "Control of legality of contracts of large economic value and programmatic contracts", "Inclusion in the single procurement program". He has edited and presented at educational meetings on a variety of current topics. They are indicative: "The effect of the European Convention on Human Rights on the interpretation and application of (domestic) Greek law", "Temporary judicial protection in the administrative procedure", "Problems of jurisdiction of Administrative Courts", "Enforced execution for and against the State. Recent jurisprudential developments", "Education in public law", "Control of legality of OTA expenditure - Public contracts - Good administration", "Court of Audit and control of expenditure", "Issues from the audit competences of the Court of Auditors", "The principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination under European and Greek law", "Modern problems and positions of jurisprudence on the new forms of contracts in competition law". He is fluent in English and Italian. After his successful participation in a competition in the year 1976, he was appointed Paredros in the Regular Administrative Courts and placed in the Court of First Instance of Athens.He served as First Instance Judge (1977) and President of First Instance Courts (1985) in the Courts of First Instance of Athens, Patras and Larissa and served for many years as Chief - President. With his promotion to Appellant (1989) he was assigned to the Court of Appeal of Athens, in the Annulment Section of which he served until the year 1998. By a decision, in the year 1998, of the Supreme Judicial Council, he was judged to have exceptional educational, moral and hardworking qualities and was selected, by absolute election, directly to the rank of Councilor. As a Councilor, he was also President (1998–2004) of the judicial formations (Levels E and F), which exercise control over the legality of contracts for works and supplies of particularly high value, concluded by the State and Public Law Organizations. As Vice-President (2004) he was President of all audit Departments, i.e. Department I - responsible for the control of public expenditure financed by EU funds -, Department IV and Department VI - responsible for the control of contracts financed by national and EU resources-, as well as in many meetings of the Plenary since 2011, as the oldest Vice-President. His specialized substantive qualifications include those he acquired during his more than ten-year tenure (2000-2010), as Director, as President of the Board of Studies and as Professor at the National School of Judicial Officers. During his tenure at the School of more than ten years, it developed at a rapid pace, emerged as a center for the provision of judicial education and acquired, after his painstaking efforts, financial independence and strength, with its inclusion in all co-financed European development programs. For these actions, the School was subjected to at least 20 scrutiny audits by EU and Greek management authorities, whose reports fully agree with the constant praise given to it for the faithful implementation of EU directives, good administration, prudent management and, above all , for respecting the sacred public money. Training programs were implemented, which respond not only to the knowledge needs of the future judge, but also to the challenge of staffing the branches of justice with a judge who is a citizen of Europe and the International Community and, in general, expanded its role and presence in the European legal becoming. He was a regular member of the Central Law-making Committee (K.NE.), Chairman of the Special Law-making Committee for the drafting of the legislative framework for the operation of the National School of Judicial Officers, as well as Chairman of the Central Service Councils of the Ministries of Economy - Finance, Education, Court of Audit and the Union of Judicial Officers thereof.
2010-2014Ioannis Karavokiris
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Ioannis Karavokiris2010-2014
Born in Solomos, Corinthia in 1947. Graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens, as well as the Department of Public Law and Political Sciences of the same University. In 1974 he was appointed Lawyer at the Court of First Instance of Athens and in 1975 Judge of Civil and Criminal Justice. He served successively in the Courts of First Instance of Piraeus as a Pareder, of Kyparissia, Nafplio and Athens as a First Instance Court, of Preveza and Athens as President of First Instance Courts and in the Court of Appeal of Athens as an Appellant. In 1999 he was appointed Advisor to the Court of Auditors, in 2003 he was promoted to Vice President and in 2010 to President of the Court of Auditors, and he had a total judicial service of 39 years. In 1994, he was elected by the Plenary Session of the Judges of the Court of First Instance of Athens, the largest Court of the country, as its first elected President (Head), an institution he served for two years, developing many initiatives. He was, at the proposal of the Greek Government, a member of the group of Arbitrators at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes of the UN, and is a regular member of the Society for Judicial Studies. He has been elected as a member of the Board of Directors for several years. and today he is the Vice-President of the "Association of Judicial Officers for Democracy and Freedoms", which is a member of the European Union of Judges (MEDL). During the years 1997-2002, following a decision of the Minister of Finance, in execution of a relevant term of the will of Evangelos and Konstantinos Zappa, he served, alongside his judicial duties, as Chairman of the Board of Directors. of the Olympiads and Bequests Committee, which was responsible for the management of the Zappa Palace and the general property of the Zappa bequest. He participated in the Parliament's Committee for the control of the finances of the parties and the wherewithal of the MPs for many years. He speaks the English language. He has written several scientific papers and studies, many of which have been published in the daily and legal press. As President of the Court of Auditors since the beginning of 2010 in cooperation with the European Court of Auditors and the Supreme Audit Institutions of the Netherlands, Belgium, of Germany and France proceeded to modernize the audit powers of the Court of Auditors by implementing a road map with basic directions during the audits to apply international audit standards, to carry out coordinated management audits in areas of high audit interest in all the entities of the Territory. He was honored in 1971 with a prize from the European Association and in 1977 with the prize for excellence in Public Law from the M. Stasinopoulos Foundation, and in 1995 he was declared an honorary member of the Inter-Balkan Anti-Narcotics Association for his contribution to the prevention and fight against the spread of drugs. Also on 6/8/2012 the President of the Republic awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix. This honorary distinction was awarded by the President for his great services to justice and the Motherland in general. On 5/28/2013, he was honored for his great contribution as an officer of Justice and his support for the institution of self-government by the Union of Mayors of Attica. Finally, he served as President of ASEP from 2.12.2014 to May 2021.
2006-2010Georgios-Stavros Kourtis
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Georgios-Stavros Kourtis2006-2010
He was born in 1945 in Preveza. Graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens. During the years 1968-1972 he was a practicing Lawyer and Lawyer of Athens. In 1972 he was appointed a salaried Paredros at the Court of First Instance of Ioannina and in 1974 a Judge of First Instance. He served in the Courts of First Instance of Drama, Corfu and Athens. He was promoted to President of First Instance in 1987 and assigned to the First Instance Court of Kalamata.In 1992 he was promoted to Appellant and served at the Courts of Appeal of Larissa, Nafplio and Piraeus. In 1995 he was appointed Advisor to the Court of Auditors, in 2001 he was promoted to Vice President of the Court of Auditors and in 2006 he was promoted to President of the Court of Auditors. He served as the President of the Court of Auditors from 9/8/2006 to 9/8/2010. He was Mayor of Drama (1974-1975), Special Investigator of Athens (1982-1985) and Deputy Director of the National School of Judges (1996-2000). He taught in the same Faculty a) in the Departments of Administrative Justice the course of Financial Law (1996-2000) and b) in the 1st Department of Civil Justice the course of Special Criminal Law (2001-2002) and the course of Administrative Law (2001) -2003). He also served as Chairman of the Liquidation Board of the "Organization of the Cultural Capital of Europe Thessaloniki 1997" from 1998 to 2001, a member of the Central Legislative Committee (1982-1988) and Chairman of the Three-member Audit Committee of the company "Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games ATHENS 2004 S.A. » (2004-2007). On 3/10/2006 he was awarded the Medal of the City of Athens by the Municipality of Athens, on 22/11/2006 he was declared an Honorary Citizen of Drama and on 25/4/2007 he was awarded the Office of the Grand Vicar by the Patriarchate of Alexandria. Also on 12/10/2007 he was declared an Honorary Doctor of the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Piraeus, on 5/2/2008 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix by the President of the Hellenic Republic,on 15/6/2008 he was awarded the Office of Lord Protonotary by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and on 9/6/2009 he was declared an Honorary Doctor of Law of the Department of Public Administration of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. From 1/7/2009 to 9/8/2010 he was President of the Board of Directors of the National School of Judicial Officers. He happens to be a member of the Association of Greek Lawyers, the Society of Administrative Studies and the Philological Association "PARNASSOS". On 27/12/2012 he was elected President of the Board of Management of Panteion University, where he served until 4/8/2017. He is married and the father of two children and lives in Athens.
2000-2006Konstantinos Rizos
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Konstantinos Rizos2000-2006
He was born in Athens in 1939 and comes from Epirus. He graduated in 1962 from the Law School of the University of Athens, while in 1975 he also received a degree in Economics and Political Sciences from the same University. In 1966, he was appointed a lawyer at the Court of First Instance of Athens and subsequently, during the period 1966-1968, he did post-graduate studies in Greece in Private Law with a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). In 1968 he was appointed a salaried President of the Court of First Instance, in 1968 a Court of First Instance and during the period from 1974-1975 he did postgraduate studies in England in Public Law - Public Administration with a scholarship of the IKY, and received the Degree of Master of science in Economics - Public Administration from the University of of London (London School of Economics). In 1980 he was promoted to the rank of First Instance President and in 1983 to the rank of Appellate. In 1986 he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Court of Auditors and was subsequently promoted in 1990 to the rank of Advisor, in 1998 to the rank of Vice-President and in 2000 to the rank of President of the Court of Auditors.He served as President of the Audit Court from 2/7/2000 to 30/6/2006. He was a founding member, Deputy Director and instructor at the National School of Judges (1994-1996), instructor at the National School of Public Administration and member of its Educational Council as well as President of the National Gallery (2000-2001). He authored many studies on fiscal law issues and since 1986 he has been a lecturer on public expenditure control issues at various international conferences of Supreme Audit Institutions of the member states of the European Union and of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUR.O.S.A.I. and INTO.S.A.I.).In the years 1987-1998 he was also the liaison of the Hellenic Auditing Court with the above Supreme Auditing Institutions. He speaks English and French and already lives in Athens.
1993-2000Apostolos Botsos
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Apostolos Botsos1993-2000
He was born in Nafplio on 23/7/1933. He is a graduate of the School of Law, Economics and Political Sciences of the University of Athens. In 1960 he was appointed a Lawyer, in 1962 he entered the Judiciary as a Salaried Counsel and in 1964 he was appointed First Judge. He was promoted in the year 1975, to President of First Instance and in the year 1978 to the rank of Appellate. He was then transferred to the Court of Auditors, in 1984, as an Advisor, and in 1992 he was promoted to Vice-President and, from 1/1/1993 to 30/6/2000, he exercised the duties of the President of the Supreme Fiscal Court of the Court of Auditors upon promotion Conference.He was President of the Board of Directors of the National Gallery for many years and today he is its President again. He is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Museum of the City of Athens (Vourou-Eutaxia), the Cultural Foundation of the Ionian Bank, ALPHA BANK and the Zappeion Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the "Errikos Dunan" Hospital and has been assigned the duties of Secretary General. He has been honored with the office of "Archon Megas Nomophilax" of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and, by the President of the Hellenic Republic, with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix. He contributed decisively to the establishment and operation of the Branch of the National Gallery in Nafplio (where works from the struggle of the Greeks for the Independence of Greece are exhibited). During his Presidency of the Court of Auditors, he arranged, in collaboration with the then Minister of Justice, for the finding and purchase of the building, which today houses the Fiscal Court, at the intersection of Vournazou and Tsocha streets in Athens. He is conversant in English and French and lives in Athens, currently managing the internal audit of the Organization for the Promotion of Greek Culture.
1989-1993Anastatios Gonis
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Anastatios Gonis1989-1993
He was born in the year 1926 in Kallithea Pylias, Messinia Prefecture. He served in the Army for 38 months as a Reserve Second Lieutenant of Infantry. Graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens and the Pantheon School of Political Sciences. He was appointed a lawyer at the Court of First Instance of Athens. In the year 1958 he was appointed after a competition to the Treasury Service of the State Accountant General and in February 1967 he was promoted to Financial Inspector of Public Accounts (Ministry of Finance). In February 1974 he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Court of Auditors, promoted in October 1979 to Councilor and in August 1989 to President of the Court of Auditors. As President of the Court of Auditors, he exercised his duties from 1989 until 1993, when he left and was awarded the title of Honorary President of the Court of Auditors. He was a member of the Supreme Special Court (SEC). As President of the Court of Auditors, he achieved the reorganization and decentralization of the Court and the expansion of its powers. Among other things, the following are mentioned: a) From 1/1/1990 he reinstated (with the provision of paragraph 3 of article 22 of Law 1868/1989 - Official Gazette A 230/10.10.1989, which he recommended to the Minister of Justice) the preventive control of Public Expenditures, which was established by Law AVOZ/1887 and was repealed by the unconstitutional (according to the unanimous decision of the Plenary) provisions of article 34 of Law 1489/8.11.1984. b) Article 85 of Law 1892/1990 (Law 1943/91 art. 77 and Law 2145/93 art. 15) established (with special provisions which he proposed) for the first time the preventive control of contracts the State, OTA, NPDD and Public Organizations, optional, with a perspective of the final regulation after the decentralization of the Court (made mandatory by art. 8 of Law 2741/99 and institutionalized by art. 98 para. 1b' of the Constitution). c) In 1992, he introduced the Computerized Organization to the Court of Auditors (it was the first Court), which evolved into its current form. d) With articles 13 to 18 of Law 2145/26.5.1993 (which he formulated and recommended to the Minister of Justice) he achieved the reorganization and decentralization of the Court of Auditors, with the establishment, among others, of Single-Member Echelons at the seat of each Prefecture and Ministry,with Head of Paredro or Reporter. For this purpose, 64 new positions of Lecturers, 5 Assistants (40 in total), 1 Counselor (20 in total) were established., 1 Vice-President (total 4) and 1 position of Deputy Commissioner (section B of paragraph 5 of article 13 of Law 2145/93, added during the debate in Parliament with an amendment). Unfortunately, the decentralization system was overturned in 1994, by the new Government, and an original new arrangement for the judicial reorganization-decentralization of the Court and the fuller, modern exercise of its constitutional powers was lost. In the elections of 10/10/1993 he was elected State Member of Parliament with the New Democracy party and served as Member of Parliament until 24/8/1996. He was the President of: the National Gallery, the Onassios Cardiac Surgery Center, the OTE, the Piraeus Port Organization, GAIA OSE, the Supervisory Board of PPC, the Board of Chartered Accountants, the NPDD Board of Directors and Committees. He participated as president of the Court of Auditors in many conferences of the Presidents of the Audit Institutions of the European Union, the Institutions of the States of Europe (EUROSAI) and the member states of the UN (INTOSAI). In the year 1992, he was named by the Patriarch of Jerusalem Grand Commander of the Order of the Orthodox Crusaders of the Holy Sepulcher and was awarded its golden Cross. He authored the books "Administrative Execution Procedure", "Certification and Collection of Public Revenues" and "Budget Execution Audit". He is married, the father of a son, an Athens lawyer, and lives in Athens.
1979-1989Nikolaos Themelis
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Nikolaos Themelis1979-1989
He was born in Samos, on the historic island of Pythagoras in the year 1922. He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens, residing in the Exarchate of the Holy Sepulcher as a scholar of the Patriarch of Jerusalem Timotheus Themelis, his father's brother. He was appointed a Lawyer of Athens and in the years 1948-1950 he fulfilled his military obligations as a reserve Second Lieutenant of Infantry. In the year 1952 he entered the Corps of Military Justice as Ef. Captain of the Judiciary and subsequently served in the Administrative Court initially as President of the Administrative Court of First Instance of Kalamata and from 1967 as Appellate Administrative Court. In 1968 he was elected as the President of the Court of Auditors, promoted in 1978 to the rank of Advisor and in 1979 to the rank of President of the Court of Auditors, acting President from 5/7/1979 to 30/6/1989. During his Presidency he contributed to the upgrading and strengthening of the prestige of the Court of Audit and succeeded in consolidating the constitutionally established powers of the Court as the country's third Supreme Fiscal Court. He was Minister of the Presidency: a) from 12/10/1989 to 23/11/1989 in the Government of John Griva and b) from 23/11/1989 to 11/4/1990 in the Ecumenical Government of Xen. Government representative. From November 1990 to October 1993 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of OTE. He also served as: a) Secretary General of the "Information Committee on National Issues" with the late Mich. Stasinopoulos v. President of the Republic and b) Head of the Internal Audit Service of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games ATHENS 2004 S.A. following a proposal by Gianna Angelopoulou, whose mission was the preventive legality check of the concluded contracts and payments. He was honored with the office of M. Archon Dikaifilakas by the Patriarchate of Constantinople, with the Great Cross of the Holy Sepulcher by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem and with the order of the Apostle Paul by the Church of Greece, while at the same time he authored about twenty scientific studies. He passed away on 8/29/2008.
1978-1979Antonios Papadatos
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Antonios Papadatos1978-1979
He was born in 1912 in Piraeus. Graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens. He was initially appointed in 1929 as a clerk at the Ministry of Justice where he remained until 1932. In 1934 he was appointed a Lawyer at the Court of First Instance of Piraeus and then on 23/5/1953 an employee at the Court of Auditors, promoted to the rank of Director (1959). On 11/16/1965 he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Court of Auditors, promoted in 1971 to Councillor, in 1975 to Vice-Chairman and in 1978 to Chairman. Served as President of the Court of Auditors from 4/7/1978 until 23/6/1979, when he resigned.