Vasso Papandreou

Vasiliki "Vasso" Papandreou is a Greek politician and former cabinet minister.

Papandreou was born in Valimitika, Achaea prefecture in 1944. She is an economist by profession.

Papandreou is one of the founding members of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). She has been elected several times to the Hellenic Parliament under its banner starting in 1985.

She has served as:

• Minister of Development 1996 - 1999
• Minister of the Interior 1999 - 2001
• Minister of the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works 2001 - 2004

Papandreou is unmarried. Despite the surname and the similar ideology, she is not related to former PM Giorgos Papandreou.