{"id":3595,"date":"2016-11-08T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T08:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/?page_id=3595"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:26:25","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/home-page\/mayor\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/wp-content\/uploads\/KGZ_8669_v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/wp-content\/uploads\/KGZ_8669_v2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"500\" style=\"margin-right:50px;\" \/><\/a>CURRICULUM VITAE &#8211; <\/strong><strong>STAVROS STAVRINIDES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was born in Strovolos in 1979 and graduated in 1997 from Acropolis Lyceum.<\/p>\n<p>He served his military service during the period of 1997-1999.<\/p>\n<p>His parents are Panagiotis Stavrinides, a Dentist\/Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, originally from Agros, and Thalia Stavrinidou, a Dentist, originally from Paphos.<\/p>\n<p>He has two siblings, Eliana and George.<\/p>\n<p>He studied Law at the University of (UEA) East Anglia in the United Kingdom and pursued postgraduate studies at Cardiff University.<\/p>\n<p>He has been a practicing lawyer since 2004 and runs his own law firm.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and a Registered Mediator.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the Cyprus Bar Association and has served as Chairman of the UEFA Legal Criteria Committee of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA).<\/p>\n<p>Since July 2024 he has been elected Mayor of Strovolos and First Vice President of the Nicosia District Local Government Organization.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Cyprus Municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>He holds the position of Second Vice President at the European Committee of the Regions.<\/p>\n<p>He is married to Charia Papageorgiou, originally from Morphou and Argaki Morphou. They have two children, Panos and Maria Pavlina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CURRICULUM VITAE &#8211; STAVROS STAVRINIDES He was born in Strovolos in 1979 and graduated in 1997 from Acropolis Lyceum. He served his military service during the period of 1997-1999. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":3589,"menu_order":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"better_featured_image":null,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 06:26:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59163,"href":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3595\/revisions\/59163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strovolos.org.cy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}