Nikos Androulakis was born in 1979 in Athens and grew up in Heraklion, Crete. He studied Civil Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace and holds a master’s degree in the “New Materials and Environment” program.
In 2006, he was elected to the National Assembly of the Technical Chamber of Greece representing Eastern Crete.
In 2008, he was elected to the Central Political Committee of PASOK and in 2013, he was elected Secretary General of the Party.

In May 2014, he was elected Member of the European Parliament and he was re-elected again in 2019 where he was vice-chair of SEDE Subcommittee on Security and Defence, and vice-President the EU-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.

He is President of PASOK – Movement for Change since December 2021.
Following the Legislative elections of June 2023, he is Member of Parliament for Thessaloniki.