The Consul General

Georgios Skemperis
First Counselor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs


Diplomatic Career

2025 May – current    Director, Diplomatic Cabinet of Deputy Minister for Economic Diplomacy & Extroversion Mr Harry Theoharis

2025 Jan. – May        Director, Diplomatic Cabinet of Deputy Minister for Economic Diplomacy & Extroversion Mr Tasos Chatzivasiliou

2024 Jan. – 2025 Jan.    Director, A2 Directorate for Cyprus, MFA

2022 Sept. – 2023 Dec.    Deputy Director, A2 Directorate for Cyprus, MFA

2016Sept. – 2022 Sept.    Counselor of Embassy, Permanent Representation of Greece to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg.

2014 Aug. – 2016 Apr.     Diplomatic Advisor, Political Party “To Potami”.
-Liaison to EU m-s Embassies in Athens and EU institutions in Brussels.

2013 Jul. – 2014 Aug.    Secretary of Embassy, C4 Directorate of Justice, Internal Affairs and Migration, MFA.
- EU High Level Working Group on Migration and Asylum. 
- Return protocols and procedures of irregular migrants, FRONTEX.

2011 Jan. – 2013 Jul.    Secretary of Embassy – Head of Consular Office, Embassy of Greece in Nigeria

2009 Feb. – 2010 Dec.    Secretary of Embassy, D3 Directorate of OSCE and Council of Europe, MFA

2007 May – 2009 Feb.    Diplomatic Attaché, D Directorate-General for International Organizations, MFA


Education

- ΜΑ in International Relations, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, ΝΥ, US (class 2003) – Focus on Negotiations and European Politics.

- Bachelor Degree, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece (class 1999)