Kostas Sasmatzoglou, born in 1971 in Toronto, is the spokesman and head of the press and communications department for the European People’s Party (EPP). Based in Brussels and working at the EPP headquarters since 2004, Kostas has held the positions of Secretary of External Relations and Senior Political Advisor. He is a member of the EPP think-tank, the Centre for European Studies (CES), and the editor-in-chief of CES’s annual European Factbook. Kostas has a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from the University of Cyprus. He can be reached at spokesman@epp.eu.