Gravaris Ioannis

He was born in Athens in 1958, with origin from Paros. He studied law at the University of Athens (postgraduate training later in France) and pursued a career as a judge at the Council of State for more than forty years, the last ten as Vice-President and President of the Sixth Chamber, from which he departed due to age limit in June 2025. 

In parallel with his main judicial duties, among other things, he taught for many years at the National School of Judicial Officers, for which he also conducted the entrance examination of 2016, represented the Council of State, the School, and the Association of the Supreme Administrative Courts of Europe in international institutional meetings, took part in conferences, wrote and spoke on issues of law and judicial ethics.He repeatedly served as inspector of the administrative courts and President of the relevant Inspection Council, as well as President of the Supreme Disciplinary Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the two-year period 2012–2014 he was President of the Association of Judicial Officers of the Council of State. He was, moreover, the President of the Legislative Drafting Committee that composed the new Code of Judicial Employees, while he oversaw the training of the first employees of the new Branch of judicial researchers. He served as the first President of the Council of Ethics of the Council of State. For a number of years he organized, with a group of his colleagues and in cooperation with educators, trial simulation workshops with the participation of kindergarten children, aiming at the consolidation from that age of basic concepts of Justice. (Related article in the magazine Synigoros.) 

He knows French, English and a little German.
Married to Iphigenia Argyraki, they have one son, Vassilis Gravaris.