The decisions between the milestones matter more than the milestones themselves.
I have changed direction more than once: from medicine to law, between universities and legal systems, from research to practice, and from advising institutions to serving inside one. Each change began with the same uncomfortable thought: a path can look right from the outside and still be wrong for the person walking it.
ActI
2016—2017
Athens · Patras
The path chosen for me
At eighteen, I stood at a podium and spoke about the future with more certainty than I actually felt.
I had graduated from Arsakeio Psychikou and was about to study medicine. It was a respected profession, a secure future and the path my father had followed. It made sense on paper. It simply did not feel like mine.
Leaving medicine after one year was the first consequential decision I made for myself. I did not yet know exactly where I belonged. I only knew that succeeding in somebody else’s plan would not make it my own.
Sometimes the first honest decision is admitting that the sensible path is the wrong one.
ActII
2017—2021
Nicosia
Learning to choose again
I turned to law because I wanted to understand how systems work—and how a person can intervene in them.
The University of Nicosia gave me a way to begin immediately. A year later, just as life had become stable again, I chose to transfer to the University of Cyprus. It meant changing legal systems and accepting that the route back to practice in Greece would be harder. But I had learned that comfort was not a good enough reason to stay.
There, law became more than rules. Through rhetoric, negotiation and public communication, I began to see knowledge as something that should travel beyond classrooms. I founded the University of Cyprus Rhetoric Club and created Dikaio-logies, a radio programme that translated legal ideas for a wider audience.
Rhetoric as a public skillDikaio-logies · 2020Law beyond the classroom
ActIII
2022—2024
Brussels · Athens · Galatsi
Moving closer to where decisions become real
I went to Brussels looking for the centre of decision-making. I returned wanting to be closer to the consequences.
At MPLegal’s Cyber & Data Security Lab, I researched GDPR, technology law and European soft law. The work showed me how rules are formed across institutions and courts. It was intellectually demanding, but also distant from the public life that had drawn me to institutions in the first place.
Back in Athens, legal practice brought regulation closer to real commercial decisions. Yet I still wanted responsibility, not only proximity. When the municipal elections created an opening, I built a campaign from the ground up and asked the people of Galatsi to trust me. They did.
Advising from the outside taught me a great deal. Accountability began when I stepped inside.
ActIV
2024—Present
Galatsi · Athens · Europe
Inside the institution
Public office replaced abstract questions with people waiting for an answer.
As Municipal Councillor and Deputy Mayor responsible for the Press Office, I learned that communication is inseparable from the institution behind it. A citizen’s request may look simple from the outside; inside, it crosses departments, procedures, budgets, suppliers and systems that do not always speak to one another.
Those frictions changed the questions I was asking. My LL.M. research used law and economics to examine why formally lawful digital procurements can still produce weak public outcomes. Work with the European Committee of the Regions gave those local observations a wider frame: rules matter, but implementation determines whether people experience them as progress.
Local accountabilityPublic procurement as system designLocal experience in European rooms
Where the path leads now
Still choosing the work, not the title.
Today, I work across law, local government and public-sector technology. At Frangos Law, I help people and businesses navigate institutions across Greece and Cyprus. Through Procura, I am exploring how better market information can improve public purchasing. In Galatsi and in European networks, I remain close to the practical work of public institutions.
These are not separate identities. They are different ways of pursuing the same question: how can law, markets and technology help institutions create more value for the people who depend on them?
There is no final version of the path.
The point is not to have every answer. It is to keep choosing honestly—and to make each choice useful to others.
