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Brigadier General Grigorios Gkoutzelis
Brigadier General Grigorios Gkoutzelis Director of the Cyber Defence Directorate, General Staff of National Defense Brigadier General Grigorios Gkoutzelis graduated from the Hellenic Military Academy in 1992, initially commissioned as a Supply and Transportation Officer before transferring to the Research and Informatics Corps in 2003. His academic foundation is distinguished by two Master’s degrees from the University of Macedonia in Management Information Systems and Law and Informatics. Furthermore, he holds several high-level international certifications, including Agile Project Management, ITIL v4, PRINCE2, and Microsoft Azure AI, and has completed advanced specialized training in cybersecurity at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Throughout his career, Brigadier General Gkoutzelis has amassed significant experience in senior command and staff roles within both national and international posts. He has served as the Commander of the Hellenic Army IT Support Center and as the Director of Cybersecurity for the Hellenic Army General Staff. His international profile includes tours as a staff officer at NATO Force Command Madrid from 2009 to 2012 and NATO Rapid Deployable Corps - GR HQ from 2016 to 2019, as well as a deployment to Afghanistan in 2020, where he served as the J1 Director at the Resolute Support Mission Headquarters in Kabul. He is graduate of the Hellenic National Defence College, and fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian. Following his promotion to the rank of Brigadier General in 2024, he served as Deputy Director of the Hellenic Army’s Signal-Informatics Directorate and subsequently as Coordinator for the newly established Joint IT Directorate of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff. Most recently, he held the position of Director of the Innovation Directorate before being appointed, on January 19, 2026, as the Director of the Cyber Defense Directorate of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff. He is married and has two daughters, aged 28 and 25.

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