Ambassador MARA MARINAKI

Permanent Representative of Greece to the OSCE

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

1976 - 1980      University of Athens, Law Faculty – Law Degree

1980 – 1981     Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Diplomatic Academy of Athens

1981 – 1983     Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki -                         Postgraduate    Studies in International Law

1985 – 1986     on sabbatical leave from the MFA / THE FULBRIGHT FOUNDATION - H.H. Humphrey Fellowship – Humphrey-Fletcher Fellow

1986        Master of Arts – The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy/Medford-MA

Parallel cross-registration with JFKennedy School of Government (Harvard University) – International Relations and  the Harvard Law School/Cambridge MA – Negotiations Seminar

Professional Career

Sep 07-              Permanent Representative of Greece to OSCE

2004 – 2007            Special Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Greek Interministerial Committee on Migration 

2001 – 2007            Ambassador - Director for EU/Justice, Home Affairs and Schengen  Department – MFA/EU General Directorate

Nov 99–Dec 00   Deputy Director - A3 Directorate for S.E. Europe at the MFA

Feb 95–Oct 99    Consul General of Greece in Berlin/Germany

Jun 93-Jan 95    Political Counselor - Office of the Secretary General of the MFA

Jan-May 93        Political Counselor - Diplomatic Office of the Prime Minister

1988 – 1992            Political Counselor - Greek Embassy in Washington DC

1987 – 1988            Embassy Secretary – MFA – U.N. and Ints. Organizations Dept.

1981 – 1985            Embassy Secretary – MFA – Political Affairs Division in Thessaloniki

1980        Embassy Attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Languages

Greek (native), fluent in English, French, German

Also working knowledge of Italian and Spanish