MARIOS ADAMIDES

Marios Adamides was born in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, in 1967. He graduated from the English School Nicosia and served his military service in the special forces unit of 32 MK. He studied law at Exeter and London and registered as a lawyer in the Nicosia Bar Association. From 1993 he served as a diplomat in the Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served in the Embassies of Cyprus in Mexico City and Madrid. He left the Ministry in 2005 after serving for 6 years in Nicosia, the last assignment being the portofolio of the treaties for the avoidance of weapons of mass destruction. Now he is a practising lawyer in Nicosia, writer and historical researcher.