About

Endy Zemenides is the Executive Director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC), the only national Greek-American think and action tank in the United States.  He oversees staff and fellows in Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., and Athens and leads the organizations advocacy efforts at the federal, state and local levels, as well as HALC’s public education programs. Zemenides is a Nonresident Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA), where he also was one of the CCGA’s Emerging Leaders Fellows.

Prior to joining HALC, Zemenides served as Senior Advisor to former Illinois State Treasurer and Democratic nominee for the United States Senate, Alexi Giannoulias.  He practiced law in Chicago for over a decade, specializing in municipal law and government relations.  He also serves as a Director of Spring Bank, an innovative community bank based in the Bronx which is the first B-Corp Bank in New York.

Zemenides currently serves on the Board of Directors for College Year in Athens, and is a regular contributor in Greece’s leading daily newspaper Kathimerini and writes the monthly Strategy column for NEO Magazine.

On May 17, 2022, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis bestowed Zemenides with the insignia of the Commander of the Order of the Phoenix on behalf of the President of the Hellenic Republic.

He received a BA from DePaul University, an MA from the University of Essex (UK), and his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as a fellow for the Harrison Institute for Public Law and an Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law.