His career in Greece, started in 1994 as a special advisor to former Prime Minister of Greece and President of the Socialist International George A. Papandreou and continued as the chief-of-staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs during Theodoros Pangalos's post in the ministry in 1996. Between 1996 and 1999, he was Secretary General of the Greek foreign affairs ministry responsible for Diaspora Greeks. He subsequently became an Ambassador at Large of the Hellenic Republic and, in 2000, the Director General of the International Olympic Truce Center (International Olympic Committee organization).