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Commissioner Costas Kadis leads the EU\u2019s Fisheries and Oceans policy, focusing on implementing a long-term vision for a resilient, competitive, and sustainable European fisheries and aquaculture sector to secure Europe\u2019s food sovereignty. He is also responsible for the EU\u2019s global efforts to restore ocean health, ensure maritime security, and support coastal communities across Europe.<\/p>\n
Commissioner Kadis has held several ministerial positions for the Republic of Cyprus, including Minister of Health, Minister of Education and Culture, and Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Environment. He also led the Greek Cypriot Technical Committee on the Environment, engaging in reunification talks with his Turkish Cypriot counterpart.<\/p>\n
Born in Nicosia in 1967, he graduated from the University of Athens with a degree in Biology in 1991 and earned a PhD in Conservation Biology in 1995. He furthered his education through postgraduate courses, including one on scientific research administration at Cornell University. His professional career began as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Athens before joining Frederick University in 2005, where he established the Nature Conservation Unit and served as Dean of the School of Education<\/p>\n
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Commissioner Costas Kadis leads the EU\u2019s Fisheries and Oceans policy, focusing on implementing a long-term vision for a resilient, competitive, and sustainable European fisheries and aquaculture sector to secure Europe\u2019s food sovereignty. He is also responsible for the EU\u2019s global efforts to restore ocean health, ensure maritime security, and support coastal communities across Europe. Commissioner Kadis has held several ministerial positions for the Republic of Cyprus, including Minister of Health, Minister of Education and Culture, and Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Environment. He also led the Greek Cypriot Technical Committee on the Environment, engaging in reunification talks with his Turkish Cypriot counterpart. Born in Nicosia in 1967, he graduated from the University of Athens with a degree in Biology in 1991 and earned a PhD in Conservation Biology in 1995. He furthered his education through postgraduate courses, including one on scientific research administration at Cornell University. His professional career began as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Athens before joining Frederick University in 2005, where he established the Nature Conservation Unit and served as Dean of the School of Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245005"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245560,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245005\/revisions\/245560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyprusconferences.org\/ridingthewave-cyprus2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}