Alexandra Attalides | |
Native Name: | Αλεξάνδρα Ατταλίδου |
Native Name Lang: | el |
Party: | Volt Cyprus KOSP (until 2023) |
Office: | Leader of Volt Cyprus |
Term Start: | 3 December 2023 |
Office2: | Member of the Cypriot House of Representatives |
Constituency2: | Nicosia |
Termstart2: | 2021 |
Birth Date: | 25 December 1958 |
Birth Place: | Kakopetria, Nicosia, Cyprus |
Education: | Free University of Brussels |
Children: | 1 |
Alexandra Attalides (born 25 December 1958 in Kakopetria, Cyprus) is a Greek Cypriot politician. She has been a member of parliament for the constituency of Nicosia since 2021.
Alexandra Attalides was born in Kakopetria on Christmas Day 1958.[1] [2] She studied Communication and Public Relations ande received her Master's degree in European Management (MBA) from the Free University of Brussels, a Diploma in Technical Analysis of Financial Markets, a Diploma in Tourism Studies and a Travel Guide Diploma. She is an accredited member (Advanced) of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission. She was Vice President of the Journalistic Ethics Committee and a member of the Council of the Mediterranean Institute for Social and Gender Studies. She was Press Officer of the European Parliament Office in Cyprus in the period 2008-2020 and Deputy Head in the period 2013–2015.
Attalides was elected as a member of parliament for the Nicosia constituency for the Movement of Ecologists – Citizens' Cooperation in the 2021 parliamentary elections for the 14th term.[3]
On 27 November 2023, Attalides announced that she had joined the Volt Europa movement and the newly founded Volt Cyprus party.[4] On 3 December 2023, she was elected co-chair of Volt together with Charilaos Velaris at the founding party conference of Volt.[5]
She is a founding member of the organisation Friends of Akamas and was also a member of the Women Come Back movement.
Attalides is married and has a son.[6]