Education
Rontos was raised in present-day Tanzania and studied History at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
Rontos was raised in present-day Tanzania and studied History at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
He has since then worked in Africa as a reporter and presiding over an non-governmental organization named Orthodox Christian Core before settling in Athens. He has exerted a strong and controversial influence on the Greek foreign policy during the aforementioned period(1999–2004). In this vein it should be mentioned that he has played a pivotal role regarding the change of Athens" stance towards Slobodan Milošević.
After the collapse of the Simitis government he served as an advisor to Mikhail Saakashvili.