Four speakers from four different decades of arriving discussed what Greek identity is actually like to live in modern Britain, from migration to growing up between two languages.
The Anglo-Hellenic League put four speakers in conversation at the Hellenic Centre in Marylebone on Wednesday 4 March 2026, on what being Greek in Britain involves.
For some in the room the story was migration, with a clear before and after. For others it was growing up between two languages.
Athanasia Chalari, a lecturer at New York University London, brought the sociologist’s view, drawn from her research into how the Brexit years have reshaped the Greek diaspora here. Nick Bouras, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at King’s College London, has written the question into memoir. Greeks in London, the second volume of his autobiographical trilogy, sets his story against the community’s wider history.
Roula Konzotis was born in London in 1953 and raised at Aghia Sophia in Bayswater, where her father served as verger for forty years. She worked in the arts and architecture, latterly as director of communications at the Royal Institute of British Architects. She was the League’s Vice-Chair until 2025.
Ikaros Matsoukas, a Deloitte director, arrived in London from Athens in 2012 and joined the League’s Council in 2022. He has since discovered British family connections of his own.