Kasoulides studied medicine at the
University of Lyon, and founded and served as the chairman of the Federation of Cypriot Students Unions in France. He graduated in 1974 with MD. From 1975 until 1981, he was a hospital doctor and lecturer in London. He specialised in
geriatrics in London, at the
London Hospital, in 1981. From 1981 until 1993, he practised medicine in Nicosia.
John Kerry at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 10, 2013.|leftIoannis Kasoulides served the
Democratic Rally in various roles, including that of Chair of the party's Youth Organization. In 1991, he was elected as a member of the
House of Representatives of Cyprus and in March 1993 he was appointed by then President
Glafkos Clerides as the Government Spokesman, a position he held until April 1997 when he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. He remained Foreign Minister until the end of term of the Clerides administration in 2003. As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kasoulides oversaw Cyprus' EU integration process. He won the first round, but lost in the second to
Demetris Christofias. Kasoulides received just under 47% of the vote. After the resignation of
Nikos Christodoulides as Foreign Minister on January 9, 2022, Kasoulides was chosen again by President Anastasiades to be the Minister after 4 years of absence from active political life. He was sworn in on January 11. ==Personal life==