Aristotelis Pavlidis is a Greek

Greece

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 politician. He was Minister for the Aegean and Island Policy

Minister for the Aegean and Island Policy (Greece)

The Ministry for the Aegean was a government department of Greece. It was founded in 1985 , with Mytilene as its seat, and tasked with supervising the development of the long-neglected Aegean Islands....

 from 2004 until 2007.

Born on Kos

Kos

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, Pavlidis studied physics

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 and mathematics

Mathematics

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 at the University of Athens and business administration in London

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. He is a member of the central committee of New Democracy

New Democracy (Greece)

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He has been elected as a member of parliament from the Dodecanese Islands since 1977, with the exception of the 1996 election. He was Minister for Merchant Shipping

Minister for Mercantile Marine (Greece)

The Ministry for Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries of Greece resulted from the merger of the Ministry for Mercantile Marine , founded in 1936, and the Ministry for the Aegean , founded in 1985...

 from July 1989 to September 1989, Deputy Minister for Finance from April 1990 to June 1990, and Minister for Merchant Shipping again from June 1990 to December 1992. In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, Pavlidis became Minister of the Aegean and Island Policy on 10 March 2004. He was not included in the Cabinet sworn in on 19 September 2007, following New Democracy's victory in the September 2007 parliamentary election.