Deputy Minister for Mental Health
Hellenic Ministry of Health

Zoe Rapti is Greece’s Deputy Minister of Health, responsible for mental health and addictions.

She is a graduate of the Moraitis School and of the Athens University Law School. She obtained her Master of Laws (LLM with honors) in International Commercial Law from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the UK and is a Supreme Court lawyer in Greece.

She has served in local government for 16 years in a variety of capacities: as President of the Municipal Council and Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Psychiko, member of the General Assembly of KEDE (Central Union of Municipalities of Greece), member of the Political Committee of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), and President of the Association for the Protection and Regeneration of Tourkovounia (SLAP).

As Legal Advisor to the General Secretariat of the Olympic Games for the Ministry of Culture, she collaborated in drafting a bill for the sustainable development and social utilization of Greece’s Olympic Facilities (LAW 3342/2005-Gov. Gazette 131/Α’ /6.6.2005).

She was a member of the Health Procurement Committee of the Ministry of Health from 2013-2015.

She served as Secretary of Society-Party Relations (2016- 2019) for the New Democracy party and is currently a member of the party’s Health and Labor and Social Solidarity divisions.

She was sworn in as a Member of Parliament for Athens, as part of the New Democracy party, on May 6, 2019, following the resignation of Vangelis Meimarakis.

On July 7, 2019, she was reelected as Member of Parliament for the B1 Northern Sector of Athens and assumed the duties of Deputy Parliamentary Representative of the New Democracy party. She was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, the Committee for the Revision of the Constitution, the Special Pre-Investigation Committee of the Parliament under Article 86 para. 3 of the Constitution, the Special Standing Committee for the Monitoring of the Social Security System, and the Special Standing Committee on the Penitentiary System and Other Institutions for the Imprisonment of Prisoners.