Zetta Makri

Zetta Makri was born in Thessaloniki. She studied on a scholarship at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and received a Master’s degree in European and EU law from Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

In the parliamentary election of 2000, she was elected for the first time as a New Democracy MP for the constituency of Magnesia. She was re-elected in the parliamentary elections of 2004, she was inaugurated MP in April 2013 and she was elected again in 2019 and 2023.

During her political career, she held several governmental, parliamentary and local authority positions. Deputy Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, responsible for primary, secondary, and special education (January 2021-May 2023), Deputy Minister of Health (June 2013-June 2014), Secretary General for Gender Equality in the Ministry of Interior Affairs (August 2012- March 2013) and leader of the Major Minority in the Municipality of Volos (2011).For the Hellenic Parliament, Chairperson of the Special Permanent Committee of Regions and its Subcommittee on insular and mountainous areas (September 2019-December 2020), Chairperson of the Public Administration, Public Order and Justice Committee (2004-2007) and, throughout the years, Member of various Parliamentary Friendship Groups and Standing Committees such as Economic Affairs, Cultural and Educational Affairs, the Constitutional Revision Committee (September 2019-February 2020), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Inquiry Committee for TORMI I Armament Programs. Chairperson and member of the Greece – Mexico and Greece – Japan respectively (September 2019-January 2021).

She was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Political Planning of New Democracy, Deputy Secretary of the Rural Sector of New Democracy, and the Secretary General of the BoD of the “Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy”. She was, also, elected President of the cross-party Political Association of Women of Greece (2015).

She has an intense social, voluntary, and charitable activity. She has two sons, a grand-daughter and a grand-son. She speaks english, french and german.