Georgios Souflias

He is a member of the New Democracy political party and was Minister for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works for the duration of the Karamanlis administration.

Born in Farsala, Larissa regional unit to a family of Sarakatsani, he graduated in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens[1] and he successfully exercised the profession in Larisa from 1966 to 1974.

On the first day of the party's 5th Congress, March 30, 2001, Karamanlis publicly invited Souflias to return to the party, describing the decision to expel him as "painful" and saying that it was made at a "politically charged time".

He was injured, along with his wife, in a car crash on November 29, 2003, and two of his ribs were broken.

[2] In May 1993, he was nominated emeritus professor of human studies of the Greek College of Boston, United States.