Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou is a Member of the European Parliament and Vice- Chair of the Committee on International Trade. She previously served as Deputy Mayor of the city of Ioannina (N.W. Greece), before her election to the Hellenic Parliament, where she was Spokesperson and Head of the Telecommunications and Media Sector of the New Democracy Party. Before entering politics, she worked in the United States and in Australia as an attorney, specializing in international financial transactions and banking law; as an external expert for the European Commission, and as a manager in consulting companies in Brussels and Luxembourg. She speaks Greek, English, French, and Spanish.