The Consul General

ALEXANDRA THEODOROPOULOU

Consul General of Greece in Adelaide


Alexandra Theodoropoulou was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She studied Law at the University of Strasbourg (Maitrise en Droit). She holds a degree from the University Barcelona (Licenciatura en Derecho) and two Master’s degrees (DEA) in Philosophy from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris and from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She was awarded a PhD from the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University of Athens.

As a Greek diplomat she has served at the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations in Geneva (2002-2003) and at the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union in Brussels (2003-2007). As a Consul of Greece in Houston, Texas (2007-2011) she has awarded by the Mayor of Houston for her contribution to the cultural life of the City of Houston. As a Deputy of the Embassy of Greece in Pretoria, South Africa (2016-2019) she was in charge of consular affairs and bilateral relations with the countries of Southern Africa. Since 23.8.2024 she is serving as the Consul General of Greece in Adelaide, South Australia and Northern Territories.

While serving at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens, she has been engaged in several fields of Greek diplomacy, bilateral, multilateral, regional, European, trade, culture; she has also served as Diplomatic Advisor to the Ministry of Culture. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, she worked as a research associate at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, has taught Public Law at the French-speaking Centre for Advanced Studies (CFES) in Athens and worked as an author in the daily press.

She is author of the book “Survival and the Sacred; First Humanity, the Greek Cosmosystem and the Mysteries of Eleusis” (2023) and has various contributions in academic journals and conferences. She has published two poetry works in Greek under the pen name Alexandra Kandanou: A Thousand in One Nights (2014), The Feather Bridle of Love (2017).

She has a son, Jason Kouzas (born 2008).