ATLANTA - Tomorrow Greek Ambassador to the United States Alexandros Mallias will give a lecture on Greece’s foreign policy in the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art at 11:30 a.m. Ambassador Mallias will also be joined by Atlanta Consul General for Greece Lambros Kakissis.

The ambassador will speak on the Balkans, Turkey and the European Union, all areas that are at the heart of Greece’s foreign policy. He will also discuss the bilateral relations between Greece and the United States. His lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

Ambassador Mallias obtained his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Athens, studied political science at the University of Geneva and obtained a post-graduate certificate from the Institut des Hautes Études Européennes. Prior to assuming the position of ambassador to the United States in October 2005, he was director of the Southeastern Europe Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens. During his 30-year career in the Foreign Service, he was assigned to the United Nations in New York as first counselor for political affairs, was Greek Ambassador to Albania and served as chairman of the coordinating committee for the Balkans.

Ambassador Mallias has been a recent panelist and participant on Southeastern Europe issues in conferences and seminars. He has worked closely with think tanks such as the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (Athens), the Project on Ethnic Relations (Princeton) and the Conflict Management Group (Cambridge, Massachusetts).