President
Nikolaos Farantouris
Professor. Department of International and European Studies. University of Piraeus.CV - Dr. Farantouris
Assοciate Professor at the International and European Studies Department, University of Piraeus, and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair on EU Law and Policies in Competition, Energy and Transport. He studied law at the University of Athens and completed a Master’s degree (M.Jur.) and a Doctorate (D.Phil.) in Law both at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on EU law and policies, competition law including state aids, energy law and transport regulation, environmental protection and international trade law. A former research fellow at the Universities of Rotterdam, Dresden and Athens, N.E. Farantouris has worked for a number of years at Norton Rose in London, Brussels and Athens, where he handled major antitrust, merger control, multinational cartel and state aid cases in the banking, energy and transport sectors before national and international authorities, the EU Commission and the European Court of Justice. N.E. Farantouris has also gained experience as a member of the Hellenic Competition Commission, a member of the legal committee of the Union of Greek Shipowners and a member of the Board of Directors of the Greek Public Gas Corporation S.A. Since 2010 he has been a member of the Board and since 2013 General Secretary of ECSA Greece.
Vice-President A
Anargyros Passas
Associate Professor of Government Administration and European Integration. Department of European, International and Area Studies. Panteion University.CV - Dr. Passas
Argyris Passas studied Political Science and International Relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and majored in European Studies (Licence spéciale en politique européenne), at the Institute of European Studies of the same University. He has received a PhD from the Department of Public Administration of the Panteion University, in Athens. He is the director of the Centre of Analysis of Public Policy and Institutions (ΚΑΔΗΠ-Θ) and the editor of the book series "Public Policy and Institutions" for the Papazisis editing house. He lectures at the Hellenic Open University, the National School of Public Administration and Local Administration and is a frequent associate of the Cyprus Academy of Public Administration. In the past, he worked at the European Parliament (1980-1984 and 1994-1996) and served as the Secretary General of the National Centre of Public Administration (1996-2001). Academically, he is interested in the fields of European Integration (institutions, organization and operation, decision-making and policies of the European Union), of Public Policy and Public Administration in a national, European/EU and international level.
Vice-President B
Napoleon Maravegias
Professor. Department of Political Science and Public Administration. National and Capodistrian University of AthensCV - Dr. Maravegias
Professor Napoleon Maravegias studied Economic Science in the University of Athens and continued his studies in the University of Grenoble, France, where he acquired a DEA and a Doctorat d' Etat (1983, graded "Excellent"). He lectured, for two years, in the same University. Upon returning to Greece, he worked as a Researcher in the Foundation for Mediterranean Studies (1985-1989) and was subsequently elected an Assistant Professor (1989), an Associate Professor (1993) and a Professor (1997). From 1999 to 2004, he served as President of the National Foundation of Agricultural research (ΕΘΙΑΓΕ) and in 2003-2004 as a Representative of Greece at the CIHEAM. He also served as Minister of Agricultural Development in the transitional government of May- June 2012. He is currently a professor of Macroeconomic Analysis and European Economic Integration in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Athens. He is president of the European Centre for Excellence "Jean Monnet", at the University of Athens. He has published monographs, studies and a wide variety of articles in Greek and international science reviews and magazines. He has lectured, as a visiting professor, in several Universities in Greece and abroad. In 2006, 2009 and 2012 he served as President of the EPEES.
Dimitrios Bourantonis
Professor of International and European Studies.Department of International and European Economic Studies. Athens University of Economics and Business
CV- Dr. BourantonisDimitris Bourantonis is Professor of International and European Studies at the Department of International and European Εconomic Studies, Athens University of Εconomics and Business. He is the Director of the Msc Program in European Studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business. His research and publications concern analysis of international and European institutions, diplomacy, foreign policy and international history. He is the author of three books (Chairing Multilateral Negotiations: The Case of the United Nations, London: Routledge, 2011; The History and Politics of UN Security Council Reform, London: Routledge, 2005; The United Nations and the Quest for Nuclear Disarmament, Aldershot: Darmouth, 1993). He has also co-edited four collective volumes (The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons , London: Pagrave, 2014; The EU Presence in International Organizations, London: Routledge 2010; Multilateralism and Security Institutions in the Era of Globalization, London: Routledge, 2008; A United Nations for the Twenty-First Century, The Hague: Kluwer, 1996, The United Nations in the New World Order, Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St Martin Press, 1995).He has published a large number of articles in academic journals (Government and Opposition, Review of International Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, Cold War History, Cooperation and Conflict, British Journal of Politic and International Relations, International Politics, Security Dialogue, International History Review, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Contemporary British History, International Peacekeeping, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Contemporary Security Policy, European Foreign Affairs Review, etc.) He has also contributed in a large number of collective volumes including the Routledge Handbook of International Organization, the Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions as well as the Handbook on Security and Governance.
Member
Panagiotis Grigoriou
Professor of European Integration. Department of Sociology. University of the AegeanCV - Dr. Grigoriou
Panagiotis G. Grigoriou has held the European Chair, Jean Monnet, since 2002 in the field of European Integration. Having received a BA degree from the department of Law of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, he made his postgraduate studies at the "Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes" in Strasbourg and in the Law faculty of the Robert Schuman University, in the same city, οn International Law. He has received a PhD from the same university. Professionally and academically, he has worked as a researcher of the Council of Europe (1984-1985), the Foundation for Mediterranean Studies (1989-1990) and the Hellenic Centre for European Studies (1990-1998). He has served as an Expert Consultant on European Affairs at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998-2001). In 2006, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government. He has lectured, as a visiting professor, in many Universities throughout the world such as Perpignan, Paris III, Abidjan, Marrakech, Krakow, Transylvania, etc. His academic work includes publications in the Greek, French, Romanian, Chinese and English language, articles, monographs and participation in various collective publications.
General Secretary
Georgios Andreou
Lecturer. Department of Political Science. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.CV - Dr. Andreou
Giorgos Androu studied Political Science and International Relations at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens and the College of Europe (Brugges, Belgium). In 2001, he received his PhD in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Athens. He has lectured at the Department of Political Science of the University of Crete, the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of the Peloponnese, at the Master's program of the University of Athens, entitled "European and International Studies", at the National School of Public Administration and the Department of Political Science of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he was elected a lecturer in 2009. His area of expertise is "Policies of the European Union". Among his academical interests there are included subjects such as EU Policies, and more specifically the cohesion policy, the Europeanization of public policies in the European Union and Greece- EU relations. He has published, together with Dr. P. Liargovas, the monograph "New Politics of Cohesion for Greece and the European Union (Papazisis, Athens 2007). He has also co-edited the collective work: " Policy and Multi level Governance in South East Europe (Routledge, Oxon 2011)." He has published works in Greek and international science reviews and magazines.
Cashier
Foteini Asderaki
Assistant Professor. Department of International and European Studies. University of PiraeusCV - Dr. Stephanou
Dr.Foteini Asderaki is an Assistant Professor of European Integration Theory and European Educational Policy at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus. She holds a PhD with distinction in Political Sciences issued by the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her Thesis, entitled as “The Formation of an International Regime: The European Higher Education Area” was awarded by the Hellenic University Association for European Studies the Honorary Grant of the National Bank of Greece in memorial of Theodoros Karatzas for the best dissertation (2004-8). Her academic interests and publications concern European Integration Theories, European Governance, and Policies, European Educational Policy, Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Quality Assurance and Internationalization of Higher Education.She has been teaching at the undergraduate as well as at the postgraduate level at the DIES, and at postgraduate programmes of the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education. She has published books and articles on European integration issues and in particular on European Higher Education Area.
