# Andreas Moleskis > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andreas_Moleskis > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Andreas_Moleskis.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Moleskis > Source revision: 1288805076 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Andreas Moleskis" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This biographical article is written like a résumé. Please help improve it by revising it to be neutral and encyclopedic. (May 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Dr **Andreas Moleskis** was born in the now occupied village of [Lysi](/source/Lysi), in the [Famagusta district](/source/Famagusta_district) of Cyprus, in 1948. He graduated with a degree in [economics](/source/Economics) at the [University of Athens](/source/University_of_Athens) and then continued his post-graduate studies in India and in the United Kingdom. He holds a [doctorate degree](/source/Doctorate_degree) in Manpower Planning from the UMIST in the U.K. He served for a number of years at the [Ministry of Commerce](/source/Ministry_for_Trade_(Greece)), Industry and Tourism (Department of Industry), at the [Ministry of Labor](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ministry_of_Labor_and_Social_Security_(Greece)&action=edit&redlink=1) and Social Insurance as Supervisor of the Reactivation Service for Refugees, and at the Department of Labor as the responsible Officer in charge for the Employment of Foreign Workers in Cyprus. In 1988 he started working at the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus and from March 2003 until April 2009 he was appointed Secretary of the [Council of Ministers](/source/Council_of_Ministers_of_Cyprus). As of 1 December 2004 he was also appointed Permanent Secretary of the Planning Bureau, which is the Governmental Office responsible for the promotion and coordination of the economic and social growth of Cyprus. As the Permanent Secretary of the Planning Bureau, he was the Head of the Managing Authority for the detailed management of programmes co-funded from the Structural Funds of the EU, as well as the National Aid Coordinator for all per-accession funds received from the E.U. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Research Promotion Foundation and as Vice President of the Cyprus Development Bank. He played an active role in the Student Movement where he served as the first founding president of the Pancyprian Federation of Students Unions, between the years 1973 to 1977. He is the President of the Committee for the [Cyprus Innovation Award](https://web.archive.org/web/20080131091149/http://www.oeb.org.cy/main/118,0,0,0-General-Information.aspx), awarded every year by the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation, aiming to continuously improve the competitiveness of the Cyprus enterprises and organizations. In April 2009, he was appointed by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, as the Head of the Cyprus EU Presidency Secretariat, directly reporting to the President, responsible for the coordination of the preparations for the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU in the second half of 2012.[1][2] The Presidency rotates every six months and cooperation closer than before is provided for among the three Member States holding the Presidency in turn. The next **Trio Presidency** consists of Poland, Denmark and **Cyprus** ([List of Presidencies until 2020](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2007/l_001/l_00120070104en00110012.pdf#page=2)) and the most important task for the three-Presidency team is to work out a common 18-month programme of the Trio. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [http://www.financialmirror.com/News/Cyprus_and_World_News/14927](http://www.financialmirror.com/News/Cyprus_and_World_News/14927)[*[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*] 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Sabrina Ragone (22 November 2017). [*Managing the Euro Crisis: National EU policy coordination in the debtor countries*](https://books.google.com/books?id=yi9EDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72). Taylor & Francis. p. 72. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-317-30150-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-317-30150-9). --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Andreas Moleskis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Moleskis) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Moleskis?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.