{"id":1739,"date":"2014-10-13T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T11:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greece-china.gr\/Gr\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T11:59:12","slug":"ahi-announces-new-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/archives\/1739","title":{"rendered":"AHI Announces New Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, DC\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) announces the hire of Stephen\u00a0Kakouris\u00a0as the organization\u2019s Office Manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to have Stephen join our staff on a full-time basis,\u201d AHI President Nick Larigakis said. \u201cStephen contributed to AHI\u2019s policy work as an Intern and his background in International Studies will be an asset to our efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen holds a Bachelor of Science in International Studies: Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a minor in Leadership Studies from George Mason University, Fairfax, Va. During his studies, he conducted extensive research on the Cyprus Problem, an issue about which he is passionate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to this incredible opportunity to work with an institution that does such important work for the Hellenic Community in the United States,\u201d\u00a0Kakouris\u00a0said. \u201cIt has been an amazing learning experience so far and I am grateful to be a part of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen was born in New York City and has lived in Cyprus, Dublin, Brussels, and Maine. He enjoys traveling and spent a summer working on a cruise ship that visited over forty Greek islands and Israel.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"easy_img_caption\" style=\"display: inline-block; line-height: 0.5; vertical-align: top; background-color: #f1f1f1; text-align: left; width: 630px; margin: 0px 0px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption\" style=\"margin: 0;\" title=\"Stephen Kakouris\" src=\"http:\/\/ahiworld.org\/images\/stories\/stephen_kakouris.jpg\" alt=\"stephen kakouris\" \/><span class=\"easy_img_caption_inner\" style=\"display: inline-block; line-height: normal; color: #000000; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; padding: 4px 8px; margin: 0px;\">Stephen Kakouris<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The American Hellenic Institute is a non-profit Greek American think-tank and public policy center that works to strengthen relations between the United States and Greece and Cyprus, and within the Greek American community.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC\u00a0\u2014The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) announces the hire of Stephen\u00a0Kakouris\u00a0as the organization\u2019s Office Manager. \u201cWe are thrilled to have Stephen join our staff on a full-time basis,\u201d AHI President <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/archives\/1739\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greece-china.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}