Adamantios Vassilakis

Who is Adamantios Vassilakis?

Adamantios Vassilakis, is a distinguished Greek diplomat and negotiator.

Adamantios Vassilakis is a graduate of the Commercial High School of Chios, Greece, and holds a Licence in Political and Diplomatic Sciences from the Free University of Brussels.

Vassilakis joined the Diplomatic Service of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972 as Embassy Attaché. He was appointed Third Secretary of Embassy at the Greek Embassy in Tirana, Albania in 1975. In 1977, he moved to the Foreign Ministry's First Department of Political Affairs, serving as Head of Section for the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, as a member of various Greek delegations visiting Eastern European countries, and as a participant in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Common Market political experts meetings.

In 1985, Vassilakis was appointed Consul General of Greece in San Francisco, California, where he was promoted to First Counselor of Embassy, and, in 1989, Head of Section for bilateral relations with the United States, Iranian, Turkish and Arab Countries, in the Foreign Ministry's Department of Bilateral Economic Relations. In 1990, Mr. Vassilakis entered the Department of European Community Affairs. In 1991, he was named Deputy Permanent Representative in the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations, and in 1994, he became Chargé d'Affaires, a.i.