Margaritis Schinas

Margaritis Schinas
Μαργαρίτης Σχοινάς
Schinas in 2019
Vice-President of the European Commission
Assumed office
1 December 2019
PresidentUrsula von der Leyen
European Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life
Assumed office
1 December 2019
PresidentUrsula von der Leyen
Preceded byPosition established
Member of the European Parliament
In office
25 September 2007 – 13 July 2009
ConstituencyGreece
Personal details
Born (1962-07-28) July 28, 1962 (age 62)
Thessaloniki, Greece
Political partyNew Democracy
Other political
affiliations
European People's Party
SpouseMerthes Alvargonthaleth
Children2
EducationUniversity of Thessaloniki (LLB)
College of Europe (DEA)
London School of Economics
(MSc)

Margaritis Schinas (Greek: Μαργαρίτης Σχοινάς [marɣaˈritis sçiˈnas]; born 28 July 1962) is a Greek politician and former civil servant. He took office in December 2019 as a vice-president in the Von der Leyen Commission with the portfolio of European Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life. A member of the New Democracy party, he previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2007 to 2009 and served as chief spokesperson of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019, and as a deputy director-general of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communication between 2015 and 2019.