Dr Andreas Moleskis was born in the now occupied village of Lysi, in the Famagusta district of Cyprus, in 1948. He graduated with a degree in economics at the University of Athens and then continued his post-graduate studies in India and in the United Kingdom. He holds a doctorate degree in Manpower Planning from the UMIST in the U.K. He played an active role in the Student Movement where he served as the first founding president of the Pancyprian Federation of Students Unions, between the years 1973 to 1977.