AHC welcomes New Greek Consul General to Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California – On Saturday, October 6th, members of the American Hellenic Council had the pleasure and privilege of welcoming Ms. Evgenia Beniatoglou to Los Angeles as the New Consul General of Greece. Ms. Beniatoglou, who hails from Drama, replaces the honorable Gregory Karahalios after four extraordinary years of service for the Greek Foreign Ministry in southern California.
“I’d like to ask all Greek-Americans to hold on to their Greek roots, and get to know their ancestral homeland better”, said Consul General Beniatoglou in an exclusive interview with AHC Executive Director, Ioannis Fidanakis. “Greece, today, is a different country compared to the one experienced by their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents”.
Prior to her arrival in Los Angeles, Ms. Beniatoglou held positions in the Greek embassy in Doha, Qatar, as well as the Greek Permanent Representation to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland. The new Consul General comes to Los Angeles at an exciting time in the community’s history with the recent founding of the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture.
