Vasilis Papadopoulos

Vasilis Papadopoulos was born in Athens in 1960. He graduated from the Athens Law School and pursued postgraduate studies in International and European Law in France. In 1985, he was appointed as an Embassy Attaché in the diplomatic corps of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has served, in addition to the Central Service, in San Francisco, Kyiv, the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Bangkok, and as Ambassador in Kyiv and Bucharest. He has taught for several years at the diplomatic academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on topics of practical diplomacy and culture. He is the author of short stories titled "In the Far East," a novella in the form of short stories titled "Olya. Two Winters and a Spring," which has been translated into three languages, an essay titled "George Seferis. Between Diplomacy and Poetry," translated into Romanian, as well as an essay titled "Language as a Vehicle of Culture - The Radiance of the Greek Language." He has given a series of lectures at universities and diplomatic academies in various countries on topics of foreign policy as well as culture and language.