Yannis Tsaousis was appointed Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic to the Court of StJames’s in March 2023.

Previously Ambassador Tsaousis was the Director of the Diplomatic Cabinet of the Ministerof Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2023.

Since joining the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997, he has served in a wide range ofDiplomatic Service roles in Athens and abroad, including service in the PermanentRepresentation of Greece to NATO in Brussels (1999-2003), in Cyprus (2003-2007), South Africa (2009-2012) and in the Permanent Mission of Greece to the UN and other Organisations in Geneva (2012-2016).

Ambassador Tsaousis holds a Bachelor in Law from the University of Athens and postgraduate degrees from the University of Kent (LLM), the University of Paris I- Sorbonne (D.E.A.) and the University of Oxford (MSt) in the fields of Public International Law and International Organisations.

He is married with one son.