"Greece: An Emerging Southern
European-Mediterranean Business Hub"

Amb. Mallias has served at Greece’s Ambassador to the United States since October 2005 and has had a long career in diplomacy. Since joining the Greek Foreign Service in 1976, Ambassador Mallias has been at the forefront of Greece’s stabilizing role in the Balkans, serving as Director of the Southeastern Europe (Balkan Affairs) Department at the Foreign Ministry in Athens in various capacities, and as Ambassador to Albania, Head of the first Mission in FYROM, and Head of the European Community Monitor Mission Regional Office in Sofia. He also served in Libya and at the Greek Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, as First Counselor for Political Affairs. He has participated in many negotiating teams, such as the Greek Delegation to the Charter of Paris for a New Europe (CSCE), Deputy Head of the delegation in 1990. Ambassador Mallias has served in many other positions, including the Department of Middle East Affairs, the General Inspection Division, the Department of Western European Affairs, the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations in Geneva, and as Public Affairs Officer at the Information Center for the European Community in Athens.