Vassilis Papadopoulos
Vassilis Papadopoulos is a Greek diplomat and writer. He was born in Athens in 1960.

= Education =
He graduated from Law School of the University of Athens and completed his two masters in International and European Law in France. Apart from Greek, he speeks English, French, Spanish and Russian.

= Diplomatic Service =
In 1985, he joined the Diplomatic corps as Attaché of Embassy of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While in Athens, he worked mainly in departments of the Ministry having to do with European Union issues, including external relations,energy, the E.U. budget, european institutions and monetary issues. Abroad he has served at the Greek Consulate of San Francisco, at the Embassy in Kyiv, at the Embassy in Bangkok, and at the Permanent Greek Delegation at the United Nations (New York), when Greece was elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council. He dealt with development assistance and environment issues, conflicts in Africa, as well as the reform of the UN and the Security Council in particular. He served as Ambassador of Greece in Kyiv and Bucharest. He has been teaching practical issues of diplomacy and culture at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for many years, based on interactive methods and simulations. In November 2019, he was named as diplomatic advisor of the 2021 Committee. On the 13th of March 2020, he was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Greek Presidency by the new President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou .
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Vassilis Papadopoulos
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1960
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1985
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November 2019
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