Biography
Theodoros Karaoglou was born in Zagliveri Thessaloniki in 1960. He is married to economist Panagiota Mantanika and has a son and a daughter. He is an economist, employee of the Civil Tax Service by profession. He has studied Business Administration at the Graduate School of Industrial Studies in Thessaloniki and speaks English as a foreign language.
Parliamentary activities:
- Elected MP (ND) for Thessaloniki B’ Region in general elections of 2004,2007,2009,2012 (May and June), 2015 (January and September), 2019 (July)
- Appointed Deputy Head of Labor and Social Security of ND (December 2016)
- Appointed Head of Macedonia and Thrace of ND (January 2016)
- President of the Greece-South Korea Parliamentary Friendship Group. Member of the Greece-Canada and Greece-Croatia Parliamentary Friendship Groups.
- Member of the Hellenic Parliament’s Delegation of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU)
- Minister of the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace (2012-2014)
- Appointed Head of Macedonia and Thrace of ND (2012)
- Appointed Alternate Head of Labor, Social Security and Providence of ND (2011)
- Appointed Alternate head of Economic Policy of ND (2010)
- Deputy Minister of Interior (sector Macedonia and Thrace) July 2019
Political Activities:
- Member of ONNED (the ND youth organization) since 1974
- Elected member of the prefecture committee of ONNED in Thessaloniki (1979-1983)
- Elected President of the Community of Zagliveri in 1986 and 1990
- Elected member of the Council Board of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki in 1994, 1998 and in 2002
- General Secretary of the Local Union of municipalities and communities of the District of Thessaloniki (1991-1994)
- Elected member of the ND Central Committee, at the 5th Party Conference in 2001
Social activities:
- Military Service: He has served for 28 months as Reserve Artillery Officer
- He has written and published the book Public Intervention (May 2007)