Important distinction for the president of the Court of Auditors, Ioannis Sarmas

By Ioanna Mandrou

Significant distinction, proportional to his international and domestic judicial course but his high legal training, was awarded to President of the Court of Auditors K. John Sarma. It is one of the three highest courts in the country.

The president of the supreme court was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Law School of the University of Thessaloniki, while in the unanimous decision of the committee that decided his honorary distinction, his international judicial career is emphasized as well. served for more than a decade at the European Court of Auditors while special mention is made of his judicial career and his scientific competence. In the decision for his speech as an honorary doctor, it is noted, among other things, that Mr. Sarmas is “obviously a great personality of the Greek legal science, with international experience and recognition and with equally important double action as a senior judicial officer and law enforcer, but also as a theorist with an active and extremely rich participation in research, bibliography and scientific dialogue “.

The honored person was addressed by the Rector of AUTh Professor Nikolaos Papaioannou, the Dean of the School Professor Panagiotis Glavinis and the commendation to Mr. Sarmas was awarded by the Professor of AUTh Evangelos Venizelos, while the speech was margins of the judge’s power to administer justice “.
Curriculum vitae of Mr. Sarma

Mr. Sarmas was born in Kos in 1957. He studied law at the University of Athens (1975-1979). He received scholarships from the French Government (1980-1984) and the State Scholarship Foundation (1980-1983). He did postgraduate studies (DEA) in Criminal Law (1980-1981), Public Law (1982-1983) and Public Finance (1983-1985) at the University of Paris II, where he defended his doctoral dissertation (1981-1985). . In 1990 he published the study “The Constitutional and Administrative Case Law of the Council of State”

Participated and won in the entrance competitions of the Council of State and the National School of Public Administration. From 1987 to 1993 he was a judge in the Council of State, while in 1993 he was appointed to the Court of Auditors.

In 2010-2019 he served as vice president of the Supreme Financial Court and in the five years 2014-2019 as president of the 3rd Department. In 2019 he was elected president of the Court of Auditors, with a four-year term.

Finally, he was a member of the European Court of Auditors (2002-2013).

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