A graduate of the School of Agriculture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), he moved to the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom, on a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). A man of rich social and business activity.
Positions held
- Mayor of Palamas, Karditsa
- Representative of Greek local authorities at the Council of Europe (Strasbourg)
- Prefect of Magnesia in 1988
- Prefect of Ioannina until 1993
- President of the Karditsa Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Vice President of the Panhellenic Association of Pig Meat Producers
- Expert member, representing the Panhellenic Association of Pig Farmers, on the European Union’s Pig Meat Price Committee in Brussels, 1987–2022
- Representative of the Hellenic Pig Farmers’ Federation on the Expert Committee of OPEGEP, 2003–2006, drafting the integrated management standards for pork quality assurance (AGRO 3 series of AGROCERT)
- Vice President of the Hellenic Livestock Association (SEK), a position he still holds