Nikos Christodoulides | |
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| Νίκος Χριστοδουλίδης | |
.jpg) Christodoulides in 2024 | |
| 8th President of Cyprus | |
| Assumed office 28 February 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Nicos Anastasiades |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 1 March 2018 – 11 January 2022 | |
| President | Nicos Anastasiades |
| Preceded by | Ioannis Kasoulidis |
| Succeeded by | Ioannis Kasoulidis |
| Government Spokesman | |
| In office 14 April 2014 – 28 February 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Christos Stylianides |
| Succeeded by | Prodromos Prodromou |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 December 1973 Geroskipou, Cyprus |
| Political party | Democratic Rally (before 2023) Independent (2023–present) |
| Spouse | Philippa Karsera |
| Children | 4 |
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| Awards | Order of Makarios III (Grand Master) Order of Merit of the Republic of Cyprus |
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Nikos Christodoulides (Greek: Νίκος Χριστοδουλίδης; born 6 December 1973) is a Cypriot politician, diplomat, and academic who has served as the 8th President of Cyprus since 2023. He previously served as Government Spokesman from 2014 to 2018 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022, both under his predecessor Nicos Anastasiades. A former member of the Democratic Rally, he has been an independent since the party ejected him for entering the 2023 presidential race against their chosen candidate.
Christodoulides started his career as a diplomat in 1999, also working as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Cyprus from 2007 to 2010. He then served in the second Anastasiades government until resigning in January 2022 in order to run in the presidential election, where he defeated Andreas Mavroyiannis in the run-off and assumed office on 28 February 2023. He is the first Cypriot leader to be born in Cyprus after it gained independence from British rule.