Eirini Cheila is Professor in International Politics at Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens (Department of International, European and Area Studies) and Head of the same Department since January 2013. She got her degree in Political Sciences from the University of Athens, Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration, her M.A. in International Studies, Université Paris II –Pantheon-Assas and her Ph.D. in International Relations, Panteion University. Her research and teaching interests include: Theory of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Political Aspects of International Organizations, Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution. Her books include, among others: “International conflicts in the 21st century. Issues of theory and management”, Athens: Piotita (2013) and “International Society. Historical and Contemporary Aspects”. Athens: Herodotos, 2006 (both in Greek). She also edited “La Grece dans le sud-est europeen. Enjeux regionaux et perspectives”, Mesogeios (vol. 22-23), Paris 2004 and published numerous articles in Greek, English and French. She was vice president at the Institute of International Relations of Panteion University in 2008-09, a Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in 1996, a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College in 1998, London and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Science and Politics in Berlin in 2006. She was a Member of the Board of Directors of the Defense Analyses Institute, 2007-09 and is currently serving as Vice President of the Greek National Scholarship Foundation.
Nikos Leandros
is Professor of Economics with
specialization in Media Economics and Head of the Department of Communication,
Media and Culture, Panteion University, Greece. He holds a B.Sc. degree in
Applied Economics from the University of East London, M.Sc. in Economics and
Ph.D from Salford University. Nikos Leandros has worked as Lecturer at Salford
University, at the Economic Research Division of the Bank of Greece and was
Director of the Research and Documentation Observatory of the National Book
Center. He was a Visiting Professor at Journalism Department, Boston
University. Also he taught in the following Universities: Technological
University of Cyprus, Paris 8, Izmir University of Economics, Istanbul Bilgi
University, Spiru Haret and St’ Klement Ohridski Sofia University. He has
published extensively in academic journals, conference volumes and is the
author of a number of books and monographs including The Restructuring of Media
Industry in the Era of Information Revolution, The Internet. Development and
Change, Corporate Strategies in the Media Sector. Also he is the editor of New
Technologies, Electronic Commerce and the Book with George Pavlidis and The
Impact of Internet on the Mass Media in Europe. His current research interests
include: cultural and creative industries, cultural sustainability and social
entrepreneurship, strategies of sustainable development, technological change
and media and new business models.
Paul Levine is Emeritus Professor of American Literature at Copenhagen University. He was born in Brooklyn, attended Wesleyan and Princeton and received a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard. Levine taught at Wesleyan, Rochester and York (Toronto) Universities before becoming the first Professor of American Literature in Copenhagen (1975-2006). He also held the Salgo Chair in American Studies at Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest (1986-9) and directed the annual Athens American Studies Seminar for fifteen years (1994-2009). He collaborated with E. L. Doctorow on a volume of the novelist's Screenplays (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) and a new edition of America Since 1945: The American Moment, (with Harry Papasotiriou) was published by Palgrave in 2010. He has twice received royal honors in Denmark and holds the title of Ridder af Dannebrogorden, 1st Kl. (2000). In 2004 he was awarded a Fulbright Professorship at ECNU and he has served as director of regional studies and the new Center for International Studies at Shantou University in Guangdong Province. He publishes widely on literature, art, film and culture.
Ambassador Panayiotis C.Macris is the
Vice-President of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture. He was born in
Alexandria, Egypt. He is a retired career diplomat and a lawyer by training.
His service abroad includes Tehran, Rome, Peking, Algers, Luxemburg, and
Brussels. He has also served in Athens as head of the Middle East of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then as the director of the policy planning
staff.
Harry Papasotiriou is Professor of International Relations at Panteion University, President and Director of the Institute of International Relations. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University and received an MA and a PhD from Stanford University's Political Science Department. He is co-author of America since 1945: The American Moment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and has published books and articles on the Balkans since the end of the Cold War, the War of Greek Independence, Byzantine grand strategy, American politics and Foreign Policy, the role of the diaspora in Greek foreign policy and international politics in the twenty-first century.
Michalis Psalidopoulos is the holder of the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Prior to joining Fletcher and Tufts University, Psalidopoulos was a professor of the History of Economic Thought at the Department of Economics, University of Athens, GREECE. He took his first degree in Economics from the University of Athens and followed postgraduate studies in politics, sociology and economics at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Duke University in 1993, a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University in 1996 and a Visiting Research Professor at King's College, London in 1998. His Research focuses on national traditions in the History of Economics and the relation between economic thought, economic policy and good governance. He has also published articles in History of Political Economy, in The European Journal for the History of Economic Thought and in History of Economic Ideas. He speaks English, german and French fluently, as well as Greek.
Eleni Theocharous is a MEP since 2009. She holds a Doctor of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GREECE. She is member of the GROUP of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats), MP-Democratic Rally 2001-2006 and 2006. She is the Chair of Committee of Health, Vice Chair of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, Cyprus Parliament. Professor of Surgery, 1992-2001, Thrace University Medical School. Philosophy, School of Philosophy and Literature, Aristotelion University. She is a well-known Poetess in Cyprus and GREECE- twice First State Poetry Award, Human Rights activist for the last 25 years, volunteer surgeon in war and natural catastrophes fields (Nagorno Karabakh, Caucasus Region, Bosnia-Herzegovina, kosovo, Albania, Southern Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Iraq, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Central Asia, the South Pacific, Haiti, Argentina, Sri-Lanka). She is a Visiting Professor in many Asian universities, teaching Paediatric Surgery. In addition, she worked on projects in the sub-Saharan Africa for AIDS prevention and treatment.
Christodoulos K. Yiallourides
is Professor of
International Politics, President of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture and
Dean of the School of International Studies, Communication and Culture at the
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. He heads the
Centre of Eastern Studies for Culture and Communication and the Section of
Cultural Management of the Department of Communication, Media and Culture at
the Panteion University. He studied Law at the University of Athens and
attended the University of Tubingen, Freiburg and Bochum, Germany. His
postgraduate studies focused on political sociology, theory of peace and
conflict, foreign policy theory and conflict resolution. He obtained his PhD
from the University of Bochum. He teaches at Hellenic Armed Forces (Joint War
College), the Hellenic School of National Defense and at the School of National
Security. He has served as the Director of the European Cultural Centre of
Delphi (E.C.C.D.). He is a founding member of the Hellenic Society of
International Law and International Relations, the Institute for International
Relations and the Cypriot Studies Center. His research interests include Cultural
Diplomacy, Media and Foreign Policy in the New World Order, International
Political Theory, and Turkish Foreign Policy. He has authored numerous books
and articles in Greek, German and English.