Two UK Cypriots were included in yesterday’s Queen’s Birthday honours list.
Thanos Antony Morphitis, Director of Strategy and Commissioning for Children’s Services London Borough of Islington who was honoured with an OBE for services to Children and Families. Thanos plays a lead role in the children’s trust, chairing a number of borough-wide strategy boards and leading a number of strategic developments including community budgets.
Thanos Morphitis
Prior to this, Thanos was Assistant Director for CEA@Islington, the Council’s education partner, taking responsibility for strategy and service delivery across a wide range of services including special educational needs, school admissions and exclusions together with responsibility for special schools and PRUs and oversight of a number of mainstream schools in the borough. Previously, Thanos was Deputy Director of Education and in addition to the above responsibilities, led on the establishment of one of the first fully integrated Early Years Services nationally.
He has also held responsibility for youth and play services, adult education and careers. Thanos started his career in youth and community education services, working in the voluntary sector for 10 years. According to the book Greek Cypriots Worldwide a directory of whos who Thanos is 60 years old born in London Father from Morphou and Mother from Athens. He is married with five children and attended William Ellis School and University of Hull.
Also included in the Queens Honours list was Christoforos Cartoudis. Principal Greek School of St. Andreas, Birmingham. For his services to Education he was honoured with a British Empire Medal (BEM).
Christoforos Cartoudis
Christoforos has been a teacher and Principal at St Andreas for over sixty years and has taught three family generations in lots of cases. He is ninety years old and is still teaching and still the principal of the Greek School he is married to Areti and has one daughter Mary.
