NICOSIA CONSTITUENCY
DEMOCRATIC RALLY PARTY (DISY)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal information:

Place of origin and date of birth:
Zodia (occupied by Turkish troops), Nicosia District, 15 April 1952.

Marital status:
Married to Kika Christoforou; has two sons and one daughter.

Studies:
Diploma in Marketing (Chartered Institute of Marketing, United Kingdom), diploma in Business Studies (The Philips College of Higher Education, Nicosia), BSc (Honors) in Chemical Engineering (University of Surrey, United Kingdom).

Profession:
Chemical engineer.

Foreign languages:
English.

Parliamentary tenure / activity:

Representative of Nicosia constituency under the banner of DISY since June 2016.

Is:
Member of the House Standing Committee on Energy, Trade, Industry and Tourism.

Political career:

- Member of the board of the Cyprus Organisation for Storage and Management of Oil Stocks (COSMOS) (2004-October 2014).
- President of the Cyprus Institute of Energy (2005-2010).
- President of the Special Fund for Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Saving (2005-2010).
- Executive Vice-president of the Cyprus National Hydrocarbons Company (KRETYK) (March-September 2013).
- Adviser to the former Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on energy affairs (April 2014-January 2015).

Publications:

- One of the co-authors of the book “Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) - From Strategic Move to Economic Solution”, Chapter under the title ‘Cyprus EEZ: From Theory to Practice’ (January 2012).
- “About Oil & Gas-Petrochemistry, Upstream, Midstream and Downstream” (December 2015).
- One of the co-authors of the book “Intractable Dilemmas in the Energy Rich Eastern Mediterranean”, (Chapter 3: Natural Gas: Fundamentals, Geopolitics and the way forward) (March 2016).

Contact info:

Address: 12, Kennedy Avenue, Office 502, 1087 Nicosia
Telephone: (+357) 22 663280
Fax: (+357) 22 669469
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.kassinis-consulting.com