Evangelos Angelos Angelakos

Evangelos Il. Angelakos comes from Mani and the naval village of Oinousses. His Doric origins go back to the 18th century, when his patriarchal Maniates ancestors rebelled and fought against the conquerors. His Ionian roots date back to the 19th century, when his maternal Oenoussian great-grandfather, Zannis Lemos, was a shipowner, and his grandfather Evangelos, a captain and owner of sailing ships and steamers.

He studied Naval Architecture at Newcastle, Durham University, England, from which he graduated. He served in the Greek Army and married Katigos, daughter of the Oenussian captain and shipowner Stephanos I. Samonas, with whom he had six children, four sons and two daughters.
In 1970, following the family shipping tradition, he founded Angelakos Ltd. in London and then Angelakos (Hellas) S.A. in Piraeus. In the mid-1990s, the family moved from London to Athens managing its overseas cargo ships through Angelakos (Hellas) S.A. Today, his sons Elias , Stefanos, Dimitris and Yannis are the fifth generation to continue the family shipping tradition.
In the social sector, it is a family tradition and is considered a duty to offer selflessly to society, which they do in various ways.

His love and duty to his homeland and to Hellenism in general, but also to Oinousses in particular, prompted him to serve the Local Government. Thus, in 1998 he was elected for the first time as an independent Mayor of Oinossa and completed his contribution to his hometown after 4 consecutive four-year terms (1998-2014).

As mayor, he wasn’t greedy. He acted impartially and meritocratic. He is a man of action and deeds, not words. His aim and criterion is the interest of the whole, through which he believes the interest of the individual is served and enhanced. To the passive mentality he contrasts a positive and creative mentality, an “ergogenic” attitude, which he tried and still tries to pass on to his young fellow citizens.
His qualifications include decades of experience in the City of London, the international financial centre, and in the free and competitive world shipping arena, as well as his methodicalness, reliability, efficiency and, above all, consistency in speech and projects. It attaches primary importance to education and culture. Inspired by principles such as meritocracy, diligence, good administration and adherence to traditional principles, but also guided by modern ideas and concepts, he managed to complete, step by step, his vision for Oenousses.

Some of the projects, -mainly infrastructure-, which it has accomplished, are:
-Solution to the age-old problem of water scarcity with the installation of a Desalination Unit.
-A solution to the, also, age-old problem of cesspools, as well as the obsolete water supply network, with the project ”Construction of Water Supply-Drainage and Biological Treatment Networks”.
-Resolution in the Medical Care of the residents, as it achieved the appointment of a permanent doctor of General Medicine, in addition to the Rural Doctor.
-A solution in the field of pharmaceutical care, as a Pharmacy will soon open on the island after many decades.
-Development and expansion of the port with the construction of modern piers and marinas with water and electricity supplies, and redevelopment of the coastal zone.
-Financing and construction of an external pier at the port, so that the ships of the line can dock and connect the island with Piraeus, thus opening the “bus route” to the capital.
-Construction of a ring road, which opens up new perspectives for residents, new road works, improvement of the road network.
-Radical reconstruction and doubling of the capacity of the Student Boarding School – for the students from outside of Onoussa, who study at the Gymnasium/Lyceum of the island.
-Construction of a new, -and specially constructed for the purpose-, Kindergarten.
-Construction of a mini-football field (5X5).
-Creation of a summer cinema, a playground and new tree plantings.
-Computerization of the services of the Municipality.
-Securing funding for the construction of a new Town Hall.
-Topographical and cadastral survey of the entire settlement.

Professional Associations and Clubs: Greek Shipowners’ Union, Greek Shipping Cooperation Committee, Greek National Committee of Lloyd’s Register, Baltic Exchange, The Hellenic Centre, London.

Languages: English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, French, German. Knowledgeable in Ancient Greek and Latin.

Interesting: History, Greek classical literature, Philosophy, Classical music, Opera, Greek traditional music. Collector of paintings on subjects from Greek history, old and new books, old maps.
He did the first international research on whether or not Byzantine ships were given names or not.

Social activities: From a young age he developed a rich social activity by participating as a volunteer in the reconstruction of roads and houses after the great earthquakes of Kefalonia, in demonstrations for Cyprus, etc.
Founder and President of the Northern Epirus Support Committee which was founded by shipowners in London, with the aim of providing financial and moral assistance to the Northern Epirus and Albanians in Albania.
In August 1994 he organized the legal support of the five imprisoned leaders of the National Minority Organization “Omonia” in the “Trial of the Five” in Tirana, with national and foreign lawyers. He activated the relevant state institutions and internationalised the issue, making it known to the European Parliament, to Members of Parliament and foreign Bar Associations, etc., thus achieving their release.

He was awarded by the “K. Kyriazis International Centre” for his contribution to the Hellenism of Northern Epirus.
He restored a 16th century church in Albania. In 1996 he visited Korytsa and villages in that region, where he provided material and psychological support to families of Albanian students and teachers who had been drowned in Lake Ohrid. He pioneered the purchase of a traditional building in Argyrokastro, which would have housed a Medical – Diagnostic Centre and a Vocational – Technical School, which would have provided free services and education to Northern Epirus and Albanians, but anti-social and extremist elements blew it up from the ground up.
He has organized and sponsored cultural events in Great Britain, Japan, Spain, Italy, Italy and Greece for the promotion of Greek Culture, as well as speeches on Greek national issues in Greece and Great Britain. It has also sponsored events in London, where a replica of an ancient trireme, the “Olympias”, sailed down the River Thames, as well as the Historical and Ethnological Museum in Athens, etc.
Founder and President of the Cultural Society “Hellas-Cosmos”. Sponsor of book publications in Greece and Romania on Northern Epirotic Hellenism, the Greek Vlachs and the Chios Fanariotes. Donations for education, charitable and philanthropic purposes, etc. On his initiative, he transported a fragment of the relic of St. Nicholas from Italy for permanent deposition in Oinousses.

His vision: To contribute to the development of society and fight for a better world.