Nikos Kyriakidis is Government Affairs Manager for Southern Europe at Yara International.

Since 2016 he has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Greek Association of Fertilizer Producers and Traders (SPEL), serving as Secretary General until February 2024 and from then as Vice President.

He has been working since 1996 in companies in the field of fertilizers, in Sales and Marketing departments. In 2001 he joined Yara Hellas (then known as Hydro Agri Hellas, the local subsidiary of the Norwegian company Norsk Hydro), initially in the Sales Department, later as Product Manager and from 2009 as Marketing Manager for Italy, Greece and Eastern Mediterranean. In November 2015 he assumed the duties of Commercial Director and Country Legal Responsible until 2022, when he moved to the European Government Relations and External Communications department of Yara International, where he remains until today.

He graduated from the Agricultural University of Athens with specialization in Horticulture (BSc, MSc) and holds an MSc from the Athens University of Economics and Business in Marketing & Communication.