CURRICULUM VITAE OF THE MAYOR OF AGIA
Antonis Gountaras was born in September 1969 in Melivoia Agias. He studied Business and Organizational Management, computerized accounting and holds a master’s degree in Business Administration and Public Organizations (M.B.A.).
From 1994 until today he maintains an Accounting Office in Melivoia. He was involved with the Local Government from a young age and devoted his life to it, at the same time watching all the major institutional, administrative and spatial changes that took place in the area.
After the “Kallikratis” program, he is elected Mayor of the enlarged Municipality of Agia. At the same time, he is the president of the Solid Waste Management Body of the Prefecture of Larissa, but also the president of the Association of Municipalities of Thermal Springs of Greece.
All these years he was active in all the collective bodies of the local government and today he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Central Union of Greek Municipalities and the e-Government Committee.
He is also a member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.
He is married to Andromachi Tsiatsiou, and they have four children, Rafaela, Nikos, Dimitris and Vasiliki. He lives with his family permanently in Melivoia.