Alexis Tsipras cabinet reshuffle in September 2018 includes Myrsini Zorba as Minister of Culture. As a widely respected member of the literary community, with experience in policy, her background spans from a Law degree from the University of Athens to one in Philosophy of Law at the University of Rome. She founded the publishing house Odysseus and has served as consultant to the Minister of Culture (1993) and as a Member of the European Parliament (2000-2004). She was the first Director of the National Book Centre of Greece (1994-1999). From 2006 until 2012, she taught cultural theory and cultural policy at postgraduate level.
Minister Zorba has participated in European committees and networks and founded along with others the "Network for Children's Rights" where she served as the head of the Board of Trustees (2004-2016). She has published essays and articles on matters of cultural policy. Her book Policy of Culture is part of the curriculum of postgraduate studies in many departments in Greece and abroad.
More on Minister Zorba's books and articles, here.
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