Manolis Kefalogiannis

Manolis K. Kefalogiannis (Greek: Μανώλης Κεφαλογιάννης; born 25 May 1959) is a Greek politician of the New Democracy party from Heraklion, Crete, who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014.

Political career

Member of the Greek Parliament, 1990–2014

Kefalogiannis served as a member of the

Minister for Mercantile Marine in the government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. In the 15th legislature from 2012 until 2014, he was a member of the Special Permanent Committee on Institutions and Transparency

.

Member of the European Parliament, 2014–present

In the

Committee on Regional Development. In this capacity, he served as the parliament’s rapporteur on the Just Transition Fund (JTF), a 17.5 billion euro ($21.37 billion) fund established as part of the European Green Deal in 2021 to support communities most affected by plans to shut down coal, peat and oil shale sectors, or other emissions-intensive industries.^[1]

In addition to his committee assignments, Kefalogiannis is part of the parliament's delegations to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital,[2] the URBAN Intergroup^[3] and the Spinelli Group.^[4]