Alex Rontos

Alex Rontos has been one of the closest advisors to the former prime minister of Greece Georgios Papandreou during the tenure of the latter as the Minister of [Foreign Affairs].
Rontos was raised in present-day Tanzania and studied History at the University of Oxford. He has since then worked in Africa as a reporter and presiding over an NGO named Orthodox Christian Core before settling in Athens. He has exerted a strong and controversial influence on the Greek foreign policy during the aforementioned period. In this vein, it should be mentioned that he has played a pivotal role regarding the change of Athens' stance towards Slobodan Milošević.
After the collapse of the Simitis government, he served as an advisor to Mikhail Saakashvili.