# Alex Rontos

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'''Alex Rontos''' (born 1954 in [Tanganyika Territory](/source/Tanganyika_Territory)) has been one of the closest advisors to the former [prime minister](/source/prime_minister) of [Greece](/source/Greece) [Georgios Papandreou](/source/George_Papandreou_(junior)) during the tenure of the latter as the [Minister of Foreign Affairs](/source/Minister_of_Foreign_Affairs) (1999–2004, [Simitis](/source/Costas_Simitis) Regime).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tanea.gr/default.asp?pid=14&la=1&ct=11&artid=4568279|title = ΤΑ ΝΕΑ}}</ref>

Rontos was raised in present-day [Tanzania](/source/Tanzania) and studied [History](/source/History) at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) (UK). He has since then worked in Africa as a reporter and presiding over an [NGO](/source/NGO) named [Orthodox Christian](/source/Eastern_Orthodox) Core before settling in [Athens](/source/Athens). He has exerted a strong and controversial influence on the Greek foreign policy during the aforementioned period (1999–2004). In this vein, it should be mentioned that he has played a pivotal role regarding the change of Athens' stance towards [Slobodan Milošević](/source/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87).

After the collapse of the Simitis government, he served as an advisor to [Mikhail Saakashvili](/source/Mikhail_Saakashvili).<ref>[http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_world_1_17/08/2008_281496] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722021817/http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_world_1_17/08/2008_281496 |date=2011-07-22 }} ''[Kathimerini](/source/Kathimerini)''</ref>

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==External links==
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/opinion/08iht-edrondos.1.12698821.html "What side are we on?" ''The New York Times''] Accessed 2010-05-16

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