He taught as a lecturer at the Department of Information and Communication Systems of the University of the Aegean in Karlovasi, Samos, and served in field and executive positions of the Armed Forces, Hellenic National Defense General Staff, the Special Forces of Paratroopers and the National Intelligence Service. He holds an LL.M in European Law and Politics from the Uninettuno University in Rome. He is a PhD candidate at the International Relations Dept of the Panteion University on Hybrid threats. In 2000 he resigned at his request with the rank of Major and was recruited as a legal adviser by the Ministry of Development.

He served as Governor and Chairman of the BoD at the largest hospital in the Balkans, the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica in Dafni. Since 2010 he has been the Head of Organization and Support of the Executive Agency of Information Technologies of the Ministry of Digital Policy by the moment of its establishment. In May 2018 he was appointed as Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Ministry of Digital Governance position he presently holds. Visiting lecturer at the Hellenic National Defense College, the Hellenic National Security Academy, the Hellenic Supreme Joint war College, National Intelligence Service, the National Center for Public Administration, the ESDC and other institutions in Greece and abroad. He is appointed as Greece’s National Representative at the European Cybersecurity Competence Center, and National Contact point at the EU Hybrid threats Working Group.

In 2022 he was awarded the ASPIS (Shield) award by the Greek ICT Awards committee for his contribution on cybersecurity and Data protection domains in the Greek Public Sector.

He speaks English, French and Italian. His research interests concern hybrid threats, geopolitics and legal issues of privacy, data protection and disinformation.