Office of External Communications

Houston, TX 77204-5017 Fax: 713.743.8199

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 28, 2006

Contact: Eric Gerber
713.743.8189 (office)
713.617.7130(pager)
egerber@uh.edu

Alexandros P. Mallias, the ambassador of Greece to the United States, will visit the University of Houston March 7 to meet with faculty and administrators and to deliver a free public lecture.

Ambassador Mallias will present a speech titled “The Balkans and the Leading Role of Greek Foreign Policy” at
4 p.m. in the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Theater, room 150. Following his presentation, the ambassador will take questions from the audience.

His stop at the University of Houston is part of a 10-day tour of Texas. He will also be addressing the Houston World Affairs Council the evening of March 7.

Mallias, a careeer foreign service officer since 1970, was appointed Ambassador to the United States in October, 2005.

He obtained a degree in economics in 1972 from the University of Athens. From 1972-76, he studied political science at the University of Geneva. Ambassador Mallias has held numerous positions in the government of Greece including Ambassador to Albania, National Coordinator at the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe and Chairman of the Coordinating Committee for the Greek EU Presidency’s program for the Balkans.

Mallias has been a frequent panelist and participant on Southeastern European issues in conferences and seminars. He worked closely with “think tanks” such as the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP – Athens), the Project on Ethnic Relations (Princeton), and in the early 1990s with the Conflict Management Group in Cambridge, Mass.

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