Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff

Lieutenant General Dimosthenis Grigoriadis

Lieutenant General Dimosthenis Grigoriadis is the Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff (HAFGS).

As Chief, he is responsible for the organization, training and equipping of all military and civilian personnel of the Hellenic Air Force, serving in Greece and abroad. As a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Council, the General and other service Chiefs function as military advisors to the Minister of National Defence. He assumed his duties on January 12th, 2024.

He was born in Thessaloniki.

CV Chief of the HAFGS

Education

He joined the Hellenic Air Force Academy in 1983 and graduated in 1987 as a 2nd Lieutenant.

He graduated from:

Supreme Joint War College
Water Survival School
Instructors School
Electronic Warfare College
Air War College/Junior Officers
Test Pilots Seminar
Flight Supervision Seminar
Flight Instructor School for F-16
Commanders Units Seminar
NATO Staff Oficcers
NATO Joint Aviation EW School
Defense Language Institute
Arms Control Implementation (Dayton Treaty) Course
OSCE Inspector/Escont Course
Lantirn training/ IP Upgrade USAF Flight Training
Certification in the seminar “European Immigration Management in the Eastern Mediterranean” sponsored by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

He speaks English.

Assignments

January 2024: Chief of the HAF General Staff
January 2023- January 2024: Commander of the HAFSC
March 2022 – January 2023 : Deputy Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff (HAFGS)
March 2021 – March 2022: Deputy Chief of the Hellenic Tactical Air Force (HTAF)
March 2020 – March 2021: Chief of Staff of the HTAF
February 2020 – March 2020: Under the Chief of Staff of the HTAF
July 2019 – February 2020: : Director of HTAF Operational Planning – Operations Directorate (A1)
June 2018 – July 2019: Director of HTAF Evaluations – Inspections Directorate (EID)
July 2017 – June 2018 Director of HTAF Standardization – Evaluation Personnel Directorate (SE)
August 2016 – July 2017: Commander of 111 Combat Wing (CW)
March 2015 – July 2016: Director at Hellenic Air Force Chief’s Executive Office
March 2013 – March 2015: Director at HTAF Chief’s Executive Office
October 2012 – March 2013: Section Head at HTAF Standardization – Evaluation Personnel Directorate (SE)
August 11 – October 2012: Section Head at HTAF Operational Planning – Operations Directorate (A1)
July 2008 – August 2011: Assistant Air Attaché at the Hellenic Embassy in USA
August 2007 – July 2008: Supreme Joint War College
August 2005 – August 2007: Commander of 111CW/347 Squadron
July 2003 – August 2005: Operations Officer in 111CW/347 Squadron
June 2002 – July 2003: Operations Officer in 111CW/Operational Conversion Unit
August 2000 – June 2002: 111CW/347 Squadron’s Flight Commander
February 1999 – August 2000: Staff Officer in 111CW Standardization-Evaluation Office
July 1997 – February 1999: Pilot at 111CW/347 Squadron
February 1991– July 1997: Pilot at 111CW/330 Squadron
August 1990 – February 1991: Pilot at 111CW/346 Squadron
April 1989 – July 1990: Pilot at 111CW/349 Squadron
May 1988 – April 1989: Trainee at 111CW/Operational Conversion
June 1987 – May 1988: Trainee at 120 Air Training Wing

Flight Experience

He has more than 4000 flight hours.
He has flown with T-41D, T-2E, T-33, F-5A/B and F-16C/D aircraft.

Promotions

2nd Lieutenant: 26/05/1987
1st Lieutenant: 26/07/1990
Captain: 26/07/1994
Major: 31/05/1999
Lieutenant Colonel: 30/06/2003
Colonel: 23/03/2011
Brigadier General: 05/03/2019
Major General: 02/03/2021
Lieutenant General : 17/01/2023

Medals – Decorations

Grand Commander of the Order of Honor
Grand Commander of the Order of the Phoenix
Medal of Military Merit 1st Class
Commendation Medal Cross of Merit and Honor
Commendation Medal Chief of General Staff
Air Force Meritorious Command Medal 1st Class
Air Force Formation Command Medal 2nd Class
Staff Officer Service Commendation Medal 2nd Class