Nikos Christodoulides  Nikos Christodoulides (born ) is a Cypriot academic, politician and former diplomat serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Anastasiades government of Nicos Anastasiades since 1 March 2018. Christodoulides was born in Geroskipou, Paphos on . His father was from the village of Giolou, in mountainous Pafos, whereas his mother was from Geroskipou. He graduated from Archbishop Makarios Lyceum in Paphos in 1991 and pursued a career in Political Science. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, Economics, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies from Queens College, City University of New York, a master's degree in Political Science from New York University and another in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Malta, and, finally, a doctorate from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Athens. He began as a career diplomat in 1999 and served as one until 2013. During this period he served as Director of the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spokesperson of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union in Brussels, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Cyprus in Greece, Director of the Office of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Consul General at the High Commission of the Republic of Cyprus in the United Kingdom. His wife is also a Cypriot diplomat, Philippa Karsera, and they met in 1999 as newly-appointed diplomatic attaches in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is currently Deputy Head Director of the President's Diplomatic Office at the Presidential Palace. Furthermore, between the years 2007 and 2010, Christodoulides lectured and served as a Research Associate at the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Cyprus. Specifically, he taught the subject of "History of the Postwar World". Finally, prior to his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs on 1 March 2018, he served as Director of the Diplomatic Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus between 2013 and 2018, and Government Spokesman between 2014 and 2018. Upon re-election in February 2018, the President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades, appointed Christodoulides as head of the foreign ministry, among several new appointments to his cabinet. He assumed office on . Foreign minister Christodoulides visited Israel in June 2018 and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin to discuss regional developments and the strengthening of bilateral ties in energy and emergency situations.