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PHILATELIC CURRICULUM VITAE
Born December 1940, is retired lawyer specialized in Marine Insurance and Claims.

Stamp collector since his childhood.

Board member of the Hellenic Philotelic Society (1971-72 and since 1998) and Past President (1984-1997).

Honorary General Secretary of the Hellenic Philatelic Federation (1971-72 and 1998-01), Secretary (1978-79) and President (2007-2009).

Member of the Editorial Committee and shadow editor of journal Philotelia, official organ of the Hellenic Philotelic Society since 1984 and editor elect (2000-07).

FEPA Board member (1997-2008), responsible for Philatelic Literature (2001), Awards (2004).

Member of the editorial Board of journal FEPA NEWS (2005) and editor of FEPA website (2008).

Delegate of Greece to the FIP Philatelic Literature Commission, since its foundation in 1973, Bureau member (1984-2004) and Chairman (2008-2012).

General Commissioner of the National Exhibition with international participations HELLAS '84 and OLYMPHILEX '04, Counsel to National Exhibition with international participation PHILOTELIA 2005, Hellenic Philatelic Federation's Consultant of the Pan-Hellenic Exhibition EFILA '02, FEPA Coordinator of BULGARIA '99, BALKANFILA 2007 and appointed Coordinator for BULGARIA '09.

National Commissioner to FIP (AMPHILEX '77, NORWEX '80, MILANO '82, ISRAPHIL '85, FINLANDIA '88, IPHLA '89, ISTANBUL '96, ITALIA '98, LORCA '98) FEPA (WIPA '00, EUROCUPRUM 01, HUNFILA '06), BALKANFILA and other international or regional Exhibitions since 1975 and member of Organizing Committees in various positions of several national exhibitions.

National delegate in several BALKANPHILA since 1975, FIP since 1977 and FEPA Congresses since 1988.

Attended Seminars for international judges in Helsinki (1988), Prague (1988), Malmoe (1988) and Thessaloniki (1989) and conducted several seminars for the national judges in Greece.

Accredited juror to Traditional, Postal History, Thematic and Literature Classes has served in several National and Pan-Hellenic Exhibitions (either as Member, Team Leader, Secretary, President, Consultant or Coordinator), as well as in regional BALKANFILA Exhibitions ('75, '77, '81, '91 and '07) for Literature and Thematic Classes.

He has been appointed jury member in FIP and FEPA Exhibitions for Philatelic Literature and Thematic Classes in ISRAPHIL '85, GENOVA '92, ISRAEL '98, ITALIA '98, LORCA '98, BULGARIA '99 (Secretary of the Jury), EUROPHILEX '02, ESPANA '04, EFIRO '08 PRAGA '08 as well as in the international exhibitions ATHENS 1896-1996, Athens (1996) and INTERPEX '92, New York (Consultant), Elected Team Leader in Philatelic Literature Class (2008).

Author of several articles the last 45 years, on traditional philately, postal history, philatelic literature and general philatelic topics (over 200), book reviews (over 85) etc, mainly in Philotelia (since 1966) as well as in other 12 Greek, 22 foreign journals, newspapers and other publications. His articles have been translated and published in English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and USA periodicals.

He has been interviewed by Greek daily newspapers and magazines and the Hellenic State TV as well as local channels where has presented four times various topics on Philately (Philatelic Literature, Postal History, Philatelic exhibitions etc).

He has drafted the Rules for Stephen Macrymichalos Award for the best article published in Philotelia (1984), the Rules for the highest distinction of the Hellenic Philotelic Society (1984), the Special Regulations of the BALKANPHILA exhibitions (1992), the Rules for the Medal and Awards of the European Philatelic Federation (1994), the C. Binos Award Literature Award of the Hellenic Philotelic Federation (2007) and several exhibition regulations and philatelic projects.

Co-author of the Hellenic Philotelic Society's website www.hps.gr (2001), the Hellenic Philatelic Federation's website www.efo.gr (2007) and editor of Philotelia's Cumulative Indexes vol. III (1974-83), vol. IV (1984-93) and co-editor of vol. V (1994-2008 under preparation).

Editor and translator of philatelic handbooks, exhibition literature and collaborator of Vlastos stamp and postal history catalogue of Greece.

Contributor with the respective philatelic entries to the compilation of a four-volume, Encyclopaedia of Greek Press, of the Centre of Neo-Hellenic Studies of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (presently under preparation) and collaborator to the project for the development of the infrastructure for an open horizon database for the Greek Press (responsible for the philatelic section).

He has given lectures at the Cyprus Philatelic Society (Cyprus) and the Hellenic Philotelic Society (Athens) and has participated as lecturer, translator or moderator in several Philatelic Congresses, Conferences and Symposia in Greece.

He has also participated in various academic Congresses and Symposia on contemporary Hellenic History with papers on the 19th century postal history topics, promoting philately in the academic circles.

He has initiated in 2000 the public and official presentations of newly published philatelic handbooks, which today is an established tradition in Greece.

Author of the books:
- Contribution to the study of the small Hermes heads, The Hellenic Philotelic Society, Athens 1969 (Greek-French),
- Catalogue-Study of the special commemorative postmarks of Greece, The Hellenic Philotelic Society, Athens 1974 (Greek), and
- Handbook of Hellenic Philately: Handbooks, Monographs, Articles, Bibliographies, Indexes, Vlastos, Athens 2003 (Greek-English).

He mainly collects disinfected mail in Greece and has exhibited in AMPHILEX '02 (Large Vermeil), in the Pan-Hellenic exhibitions EFILA '02 (Gold with Felicitations) and KARDITSA '06 (Gold and Special Prize), the national exhibitions with international participation VASTOPHIL '04 (Italy), JERUSALEM '06 (Israel) and POSTEX '06 (Netherlands) (Gold), the world exhibitions WASHINGTON '06 (Gold) and ISRAEL '08 (Large Vermeil).

He has also participated in a joint display of the Disinfected Mail Study Circle at the Royal Philatelic Society London (2003).

His handbook Catalogue-Study of Special Commemorative Postmarks of Greece, has been exhibited in FIP World Exhibitions ESPANA '75, ITALIA '76 and AMPHILEX '77 (silver bronze) and INTERPHIL '76 (silver).

His Handbook of Hellenic Philately was awarded with Large Vermeil (and special prize) in the International Philatelic Literature Exhibition TEMEX '03 (Argentina), the WORLD STAMP CHAMPIONSHIP '04 (Singapore), WASHINGTON '06 and ST. PETERSBRG '07, with Vermeil in Nationals with international participation CHICAGOPEX '04 (USA), JERUSALEM 2006 (Israel) and the 10th National Philatelic Literature exhibition of N. Zealand (2007), with Large Silver in BRNO '05 (Czech Republic), HUNPHILA '07 (Hungary) and LIPSIA '07 (Germany) and Silver in the 7th National Philatelic Literature Exhibition of Canada (2005),

He has been presented with:
- Honorary silver pin of the Turkish Philatelic Federation (1977).
- C. BINOS Award 1999 Literature Award by the Hellenic Philotelic Federation, for "37 years philatelic writing and editorship".
- G. P. TREFONAS 1999 Memorial Award by the Hellenic Philatelic Society of America, "for long-standing and tireless philatelic services to Hellenic Philately and efforts to project and maintain its international standing", and
- S. MACRYMICHALOS Award 2001, by the Hellenic Philotelic Society for the best article published in Philotelia that year, namely "The 'Polish issues' of 1934".
- Special prize for his long-standing service to the BALKANFILA exhibitions by the Turkish Philatelic Federation (2007)
- Special prize by the FEPA Board for his long-standing service (2008)

Fellow and representative in Greece of the Royal Philatelic Society London (1976), member of the Association Internationale de Journalistes Philateliques (1983), The Disinfected Mail Study Circle (1986), The Philatelic Writers Society (1997) and L'Academie Europeenne de Philatelie (2001).