Rena Dourou
| Rena Dourou | |
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| Ρένα Δούρου | |
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| Regional Governor of Attica | |
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Assumed office 1 September 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Giannis Sgouros |
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| Born |
7 October 1974 Athens, Greece |
| Political party | Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) |
| Domestic partner | Giannis Benisis |
| Alma mater |
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Essex |
| Profession | Political scientist |
| Website | www |
Irene "Rena" Dourou (Greek: Ειρήνη "Ρένα" Δούρου; born 7 October 1974 in Athens) is a Greek political scientist and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). Since September 2014, she has been serving as Regional Governor of Attica.
Born 1974 to a police officer and a stay-at-home mother, whom Dourou later described as conservative yet open-minded, she was raised in Western Athens working-class suburb Egaleo. Active in the anti-globalization movement, she helped founding Synaspismos Youth in 1995.
Dourou took up her studies to become a teacher at Athens University. Following her graduation she was rewarded a scholarship to University of Essex in the United Kingdom where she enrolled in political science and earned a master's degree. Though Dourou was encouraged to pursue a Ph.D., she decided to return to Greece, where in 2004 she joined the newly founded Syriza party.
Apart from Greek, Dourou is fluent in English, French, Italian and Turkish.
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