By decision of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Ambassador Ioannis Raptakis and Lieutenant General Georgios Kellis have been appointed to the positions of two Deputy Commanders of the National Intelligence Service.

The Deputy Commanders will work with the Commander to fulfill the mission of the National Security Defense Agency in the context of the government’s recent legislative initiatives for the EEM to radically restructure it.

Biography of Ioannis Raptakis

Ioannis Raptakis worked for a long time in the diplomatic corps.

He studied political science in Athens and international relations and international law at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He speaks English, French, German and Spanish.

He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1985.

His career includes the following positions:

• Ambassador to the UK (2020-2023), Vietnam and Laos (2017-2019), India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and the Maldives (2012-2015).
• Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) (2020-2023). Consul General in Sydney (2004-2007) and Bucharest (2001-2003), and Consul in Perth (1989-1993).
• Deputy Head of Embassies in Buenos Aires (1997-1999) and Dublin (1993-1996).
• Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the countries of South Eastern Europe (2019-2020), CFSP/CSDP (2015-2017), Justice, Home Affairs and the Schengen Agreement (2009-2011), as well as integration and economic and monetary – credit policy (2008). ).
• President of the European Union Working Groups on Visas and the Schengen Validation (2003) and Leading Expert of the European Union. on assessing the correct application of the Visa Law (2003, 2011, 2012).

Biography of Georgios Kellis

The former deputy head of the HPP, Lieutenant General Georgios Kellis, was born in 1964 in Xanthi.

In 1982 he entered the Evelpidon Military School, from which he graduated in 1986 with the rank of lieutenant engineer. He is a qualified Civil Engineer from the Democritus University of Thrace with a Master’s Degree in New Materials and Technologies in the Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures and a PhD student at ITH.

He attended all the prescribed schools of Oplos M.H. At the same time, he graduated from the Engineering Officers’ Technical School.

In 2000, he worked as an employee of the SEEBRIG design department in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and in 2004 he graduated from the Higher Multidisciplinary Military School.

During his career as a senior officer, he served as the director of the 732nd War Works Directorate at Xanthi and as commander of the 25th LMH and 724th TMH at Xanthi.

In 2008 he served as Director of Training for the NATO Engineering Center of Excellence in Ingolstadt, Germany.

After being promoted to colonel in 2011, he studied at the School of National Defense and then was appointed as an engineer commander in the SSS.

In 2016, he was promoted to brigadier general and was appointed commander of the SS/NRDC-GR engineering brigade, and then director of the HPP Infrastructure and Environmental Protection Directorate.

In 2019, having received the rank of lieutenant general, he was appointed director of the Engineering Department at the HPP. In 2020, he will be entrusted with the duties of the director of the 3rd branch of the HPP.

On March 1, 2021, he was promoted to lieutenant general and, by decision of KYUSEA, assumed the duties of deputy head of the hydroelectric power station, from which he was demobilized with the last crisis on 01/17/2023.

Upon retirement, he bears the title of Honorary Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces.

Speaks English and Bulgarian.