Dr Marina Stefou has served as Secretary General for Demography and Housing Policy of the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family since July 2023.

She graduated from the School of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a Master’s Degree in Law and Business Economy from the Department of International and European Studies of the Panteion University, as well as a Doctorate Degree (PhD) in International Economic Law from the same institution.

As a ‘Marie Curie’ PhD Scholarship recipient from the European Commission and a member of the European Corporate Governance Training Network (ECGTN), she conducted part of her doctoral research at the Department of Financial Law of the University of Genoa between 2006 and 2008.

In 2011 she completed the special interdisciplinary program for senior executives of the American ‘Harvard Kennedy School’ on the topic of “Senior Managers in Government”.

She has fourteen years of professional experience with the European Parliament, having worked as a scientific advisor to Members of the European Parliament in various Committees as well as an advisor of the European People’s Party Group (EPP Group) in the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL).

She participated, on a technical-advisory level, in the informal working group for the European Child Guarantee, concerning vulnerable children and combating child poverty.

In 2022-2023 she served as President of the Research Centre for Gender Equality (RCGE).