Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece’s newly elected Prime Minister has appointed Antonis H. Diamataris as the Deputy Minister for Expatriate Greeks.
Mr. Diamataris, who has been based in New York since 1968 when he migrated to the United States, has been both the publisher and editor of the National Herald since 1979.
The new Deputy Minister for expatriate Greeks hails from Lemnos island where he was born in 1950 in Thanos village.
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Antonis Diamataris’ history in a nutshell:
- 1977
MBA from Columbia University. - 1979
He buys 100% of the shares of the publishing company Ethnikos Kyrix (National Herald) becoming the publisher for the historic newspaper. - 1982
Ethnikos Kyrix moves for the first time to privately-owned facilities in Long Island City. - 1997
Issues the weekly English edition of the newspaper, The National Herald. - 2004
The newspaper launches its websites. - 2007
He is honored with the Hellenic Republic’s Phoenix Award. - 2015
He is honored by President Barack Obama at the White House, for 100th Anniversary since the founding of Ethnikos Kyrix. - 2016
New York City renames the street in front of the headquarters of Ethnikos Kyrix to “Ethnikos Kyrix Way.”