The legendary insurer Manos Markoglou passed away a few days ago. The longest-lasting insurer in Greece began his career in the United States insurance market as part of a career week with the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1956. Then, he went on to America with Continental American of New York returning to Greece in 1964 as the first person of the country who became MDRT member.
Manos Markoglou, apart from Insurer, was also an academic. He taught in America and Greece at the Panteion University as an extraordinary and regular professor and from 1979 to 1990 at DEREE.
Manos Markoglou went in Alico (now MetLife) in 1965 when he resigned from a government adviser and with a special permit from the Ministry of Education became an insurance adviser. A property that lasted more than 50 years. One year after starting with Alico it became Unit Manager, the world’s first, and one year after, he had hs own Agency which was also the world’s first.
Manos Markoglou always believed in the institution of insurance and the institution of the Agency, especially in our days, when in one of his last interviews with the ”Insurance YES” he stated that: “This season is the most suitable for the development of branches better than ever, because there are thousands of young children remarkable and unemployed. “
Ηισ advice to new insurers is “τo work hard and honest by believing in themselves and in their function.”
Manos Emm. Markoglou was born in Athens. His funeral was done on Tuesday 29th of May 2018 and the Members of Communication Committee MDRT Greece and the Country Chair, Kyriakos Chatzistefanou, declared their honest condolences to his family and they sent a wreath of flowers.
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Curriculum vitae of Manos Markoglou
STUDIES: 1) Connecticut University, USA, Political Science and International Relations, July 1955, MA, International Relations, June 1957. 2) New York University, , February 1962. 3) New York University, Postdoctoral Diploma, Political Sciences, Department of Middle-Eastern and African Studies. In the last 10 years he has been teaching Social Sciences at the People’s University of the Friends of the People Society.
ARTICLES: More than fifty published articles in Greek and American magazines.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES: “The Truman Doctrine, the culmination of the Greek-American relations”, “The American Interest on Cretan Revolution 1866-1869”, “Political Science and History of Political Theories,” “Andrew’s Advisor Recalls and Reveals,” ” I saw it “,” Asia Minor in Elliniko “.
GOVERNMENT SERVICE: He returned to Greece in early 1964 and as the Special Advisor to the Presidency he was the coordinator of the founding committee of the new University of Patras. Head of the Greek delegation to the OECD, in Paris in July 1964. Then OOSA Approved the first credits for the new University. Candidate MP in Second Athens with the Center Union in the elections of May 1967 (they were not conducted due to military intervention).
BUSINESS ACTIVITY: A member of METLIFE, is the longest serving manager of a branch, of all companies in Greece.
MILITARY SERVICE: Member of the National Organization for Peace and Security You too. During Occupation. Rescue Lieutenant of Infantry during the period of the Armed War (1948-1952). For this action he has diplomas from the Greek State, the Hellenic Municipality and the Hellenic History Study Company (EMEIS).
FRIDAY: Medal of the National Resistance and the celebration of St. Mark, the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
FAMILY SITUATION: Married with three children.
