Georgios Chatzimarkakis (; born 21 April 1966) is a German politician of Greek descent, Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany (part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe). He was a 2014 European Parliament candidate for the newly formed party Greek European Citizens (Έλληνες Ευρωπαίοι Πολίτες) of Greece. Education and career Chatzimarkakis was born and grew up in Duisburg. In 1993 he graduated as M.A. in political science at the philosophical faculty of the University of Bonn. He supplemented his studies with a visiting research fellowship at St Antony's College, University of Oxford under the auspices of Ralf Dahrendorf in 1995. From 1993 to 1996 Chatzimarkakis worked as a science policy officer at the Bundestag. From 1996 to 1998, he was member of the planning department of the Foreign Office of Germany. Chatzimarkakis held a lectureship at the University of Duisburg from 1997 to 2001, during which time he also worked on his doctoral thesis on Informational Globalism - A cooperation model of global governance using the example of electronic commerce (Informationeller Globalismus - Kooperationsmodell globaler Ordnungspolitik am Beispiel des Elektronischen Geschäftsverkehrs ). In 2011 the University of Bonn revoked his doctoral title. The committee found him guilty of plagiarism in his thesis. Chatzimarkakis is married and has two daughters. Political activities Chatzimarkakis is a member of the national executive committee of the FDP and of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party council since 1995. From 2002 to 2010 he was secretary-general of the FDP regional association of the Saarland. He is a founding member of the Dahrendorfkreis, a wing of the FDP that advocates for sustainable liberalism. After the FDP lost two regional elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, Chatzimarkakis was one of the main critics of the party leader Guido Westerwelle. Chatzimarkakis has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2004 for the FDP party of Germany. In the 2014 European Parliament elections he stood for the newly formed Greek party Greek European Citizens. He currently sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries as well as on the Committee on Budgetary Control, for which he is a coordinator. He also chairs the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Macedonia. He is a supporter of the Spinelli Group. From February 2016 Chatzimarkakis is the first permanent Secretary General of Hydrogen Europe. Hydrogen Europe (formerly known