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Theodoros Tsekos
Theodore N. Tsekos was born in Athens, Greece in 1957. He received his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Athens, Greece (1982), his M.A. (DEA) in Administrative Science from Université de Picardie, France (1984) and his Ph.D. in Public Administration from Panteion University, Athens, Greece (2003).
He is currently an Associate Professor of Public Administration in the Department of Business and Public Administration at the Institute of Technological Education of Peloponnese, Greece.
His professional career includes a Director’s position at the Institute of Continuous Training for Public Servants, the Greek National Center of Public Administration (1989-2000), a Director’s position at the International Center of Public Administration, a joint project of the United Nations and the Greek Government promoting administrative reforms in transitional countries (2000-2004), and a Coordinator’s position at the Division of Documentation and Innovation, the Greek National Center of Public Administration (2011-2012). He has also held the position of Secretary General for the Management of European Funds at the Ministry of Labor (2009-2011).
He has taught in the Postgraduate Program on European Integration, Panteion University, Athens, Greece (2004-2013), the Graduate Program on Business and Public Management Hellenic Open University (2004-currently), the Greek National School of Public Administration (1992-2005 & 2013), the Postgraduate Program on European Public Policy, Panteion University (2014-currently) and the Master in Public Administration, University of Nicosia, Cyprus (2012-currently).
He is the co-director of the collection "Public Policy and Institutional Analysis", Papazissis Publishers, Athens (2009–currently), a member of the Editorial Board of the Greek Review of Administrative Science (2009-currently), a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research, (2008–currently) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Institutional and Policy Analysis of the Panteion University, Greece (2007–currently).
He has published extensively on public management, public policy, e-government and quality management topics. His has edited two books and authored two books as well as thirty five articles and book chapters in Greek, English and French.
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Yiannis Gounaris
Ioannis (Yannis) Gounaris was born in Athens in November 1978. He is a Doctor of Law at the University of Athens, the subject of his doctoral thesis being the protection of fundamental rights in the field of biotechnology. His area of academic research includes the institutional framework and the constitutional structures of European integration and the impact of new technologies on the evolution of the law. He is an advocate at the Athens Appellate Court, specializing in the Law of the European Convention on Human Rights. From 2009 to 2012 he worked as a special advisor to the Special Standing Committee on European Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament, and since 2015 he serves as an expert advisor to the Hellenic Parliament, his work focusing on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
He graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens in 2001 and completed his postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics in 2002, where he was awarded the title of LL.M in Public International Law. He holds the Diploma of the Academy of European Law of the European University Institute in Florence on the Protection of Human Rights (2003) and the Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law (2004). In 2005 he was awarded the Total Law Diploma in European legal practice, co-organized by the Jean Monnet Centre and the Central European University in Budapest, with Magna cum Laude. In the same year he completed his in-ternship at the European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Technology in Brussels.
He has published the following books: European Utopia: Reflections on the United Europe of the 21st century (Castalia publications, 2008, in Greek), The Refounding of Europe (together with Panos Trigazis, Taxideftis publications, 2014, in Greek), and In Search of European Democracy: the new discussion on a Constitution for Europe (Papazisis editions, 2014, in Greek) and has participated in the collective volume From Bush to Obama: International Policy in a Changing World (Papazisis publications, 2010, in Greek). He is a member of the editorial board of the political and economic periodical International and European Policy of Papazisis publications, where he has also published a number of essays, and an associate of the Greek legal magazines Advocate and Environment & Law of Legal Library publications, writing summaries and commentaries of the jurisprudence of the Court of the European Union Court. Various articles and essays on European matters written by him have also been published in the online magazines Evropaiki Proklisi, Red Notebook and New Deal, in the law journal Dikaiorama and in the Greek newspapers Imerisia, Avgi and Efimerida ton Syntakton (where he writes regularly), while he has also participated with written papers in several international conferences.
He is a member of the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations and active in various scientific associations and organizations of civil society. He is fluent in English and French and commands a very good level of German, Italian and Spanish.
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Evangelia Katakalou
Evangelia I. Katakalou was born in Athens in 1980. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of International, European and Area Studies of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, conducting her research on "The European Research Area; the case-study of Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities (SSH)".
She holds a degree in "International and European Studies" from Panteion University and a Master of Arts (MA) in "European Policy and Administration" from the same Department. Her research interests focus on the History of Science, Public Policy Analysis, European Integration, European Public Policy and EU policies for Research and Cohesion.
From January 2010 up to May 2012 she worked at the General Secretariat for the Management of European Funds of the Greek Ministry of Labour and Social Security as a Scientific Advisor for publicity and monitoring issues of Programmes co-funded by the European Social Fund in Greece during the 4th Programming Period (2007-2013).
She has edited and teaches the Thematic Unit on the management of EU co-funded projects in Greece for the Distance Learning Programme of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) "EU and International Funding Instruments" (since November 2012).
She is a member of the Governing Board of the Center for Policy and Institutional Analysis in the Department of International, European and Area Studies, Panteion University and a member of the Working Group of the Hellenic University Association for European Studies (ECSA-Greece) managing the european projects of the Association.
As a member of the Jean Monnet Chair team she gives lectures at the postgraduate course "European Public Policy" (I & II) of the specialization "European Law and Public Policy" on the formulation of EU cohesion policy and its implementation in Greece.
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Michail Kosmidis
Michail S. Kosmidis works as Head of Migration Policy Unit at the Greek Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform. He is responsible for legal and operational issues related to EU and national legislation on legal migration, Deputy Member of the European Migration Network Steering Board (EMN), and Head of the Delegation to the WG for Integration, Migration and Expulsion of the Council of EU which he also Chaired during the Greek Presidency of the Council of EU in the first semester 2014. In 2004-2010 Mr Kosmidis has been posted as Home Affairs Counsellor (CONS JAI) at the Greek Permanent Representation to the European Union responsible for issues on legal migration, integration, free movement and fundamental rights. He studied modern history at the University of Athens and holds an MSs in Diplomatic History; He is also a graduate of the National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government. Currently, he is working on his Doctoral Thesis on EU migration policies at Panteion University of Athens.
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Katerina Lymperopoulou
Katerina Lymperopoulou was born in Kalamata in 1988. She is a lawyer and a PhD candidate at the Department of International, European and Area Studies of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Her PhD thesis is "The European asylum policy and the role of NGOs".
Ιn 2011 she graduated from Athens Law School. From 2015 to 2017 she attended the postgraduate program "European Law and Public Policy" at the Department of International, European and Area Studies of Panteion University, and her thesis was "Judicial and administrative detention of aliens in the Greek legal framework: Issues regarding the protection of fundamental rights in the light of the ECHR and EU law".
Since 2013 she has been working in several NGOs, providing legal assistance to asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants, as part of EU funding programs. She has undertaken the legal representation of third-country nationals during the asylum procedure, emphasizing on vulnerable social groups, such as unaccompanied minors, single parent families and victims of violence. She is specialized in the administrative detention of foreigners, by conducting monitoring visits to pre-removal detention centers in Greece and advocating the national and European institutional bodies.
She has attended seminars and workshops, expanding her knowledge on refugee law and the protection of human rights.
In addition to Greek, she speaks English, German and Italian.
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Eleni Martsoukou
Eleni Martsoukou is a lawyer and member of the Athens, Germany and New York Bars. She is specialized in European Union law.
She was born in Athens and graduated from the Law Faculty of Athens University where she was the valedictorian. She accomplished postgraduate studies at the Law Faculty of Frankfurt am Main University where her LL.M. thesis was honored as the best LL.M. thesis of the year, and afterwards at Yale Law School.
Apart from being active as a lawyer, she worked as a legal auditor with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority and as a Yale Law School Fellow at the American University in Cairo and at Yale Law School.
In 2010, through the opengov selection procedure, she returned to Greece where she founded and was Head of the Office for International and European Affairs of the General Secretariat of the Greek Government till October 2015. On July 31st 2012 she was honored by the then Prime Minister Mr. Antonios Samaras with an award for exceptional service as a civil servant and for avoiding the imposition upon Greece of European fines estimated at up to half a billion Euros.
In March 2016 the Parliamentary Conference of Chairmen unanimously elected her as Deputy Vice President of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy. In May 2016 she became an ad hoc member of the National Council of Foreign Policy.
She is the co-author of the book "European Union Law in Greece-A Harmonization Handbook" (Athens, June 2013). She has published in Greek and English. She was keynote speaker in many Greek and international conferences, and guest lecturer at universities in Greece and abroad.
She is fluent in Greek, English, German, French, and Russian.
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Eirini Pavli
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Evlampia Petraki
Evlampia Petraki joined the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2010, as an Expert-Counsellor on EU institutional issues.
As of November 2014, she has been serving at the Hellenic Permanent Representation to the EU, in charge of the, inter alia, Future of Europe debate (including BREXIT), EMU integration and CFSP/CSPD/EEAS institutional evolution. In her capacity as delegate at the Council WG "Antici+1 Expert", she has been participating, since 2015, in the negotiations on the conclusion and implementation of the new Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making. Moreover, she monitors the "Rule of Law" Council and Commission Mechanisms. For her contribution to the national representation in the future of EMU debate (GAC, July 2015), she was awarded with a Gratitude Letter, signed by the then Alternate FM.
Before taking up her duties in Brussels, Evlampia served at the MFA Directorate for European Integration and EMU, contributing to the preparation and conduct of the 5th Hellenic Presidency of the Council of the EU. She, among other things, produced the Reflection Papers of high-level meetings on EU/EMU integration and governance. For her contribution, she was awarded an Honorable Mention by the then MFA leadership. During the Italian Presidency (2nd semester of 2014), she represented Greece at the Friends of the Presidency WG entitled "improving the functioning of the EU System". From 2011 to 2013, she served at the MFA Directorate for European External Relations as Desk Officer for Transatlantic relations and for EU relations with Asia, Oceania and Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as person in charge of the institutional aspects for all EU external relation files.
She is an active member of the Hellenic MFA Experts Trade Union, having served as an elected President of the Union Executive (December 2012 – April 2015).
Prior to her appointment to MFA, Evlampia had been an Attorney at Law before the Athens Courts of First Instance and Court of Appeal, as well as an Intern Lawyer at the Legal Council of the Hellenic State. She has notable experience as teaching associate/assistant in EU integration and EU Public Policy with two postgraduate programmes of Panteion University, Athens. She has also taught at the National School of Public Administration. As a researcher and member of the governing board of the "Centre of Institutional and Policy Analysis", she has participated in research projects. She has also contributed in transferring EU institutional know-how to States of the South-eastern European region through projects implemented by the Centre for European Constitutional Law – Themistocles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation.
Evlampia studied Law (degree), EU Policy and Administration (master), EU institutional Law and Governance (PH.D. under final submission, holder of Research Scholarship offered by Vardinoyannis Foundation), in Athens. Her doctoral thesis is entitled: "EU governance new modes and methods: their impact on the evolution of the European Commission in the realm of polity and policy design".
In addition to her mother tongue Greek, she is fluent in English and French and speaks Italian.
Evlampia has contributed to a range of conferences and seminars held by influential think-tanks in Greece and abroad and has published articles/book chapters on European integration, EU institutional evolution and EU policy-making processes. She has also cooperated in editing and proof-reading projects, including at the collection "Public Policy and Institutional Analysis", Papazissis Publishers, Athens.
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Spyros Stamoulis
Spyros Stamoulis is a Political Scientist with doctorate, postgraduate and undergraduate studies at Panteion University and specialization in public policy. He was Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies. His published research work includes papers in the Greek Public Administration, the European Union and the Balkans. In his professional career he works as a civil servant at the Directorate for the Organizational & Academic Development at the Greek Ministry of Education, Research & Religious Affairs. He was Deputy Head in the Department of Research & Statistics and in the Department of Design, Development, Postgraduate Studies & Research of the Greek Ministry of Education. His research interests include public policy, public administration and European integration.
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Theodora Stathopoulou
Stathopoulou Theodora is a graduate of the National Centre of Public Administration, holds an MA in "State and Public Policy" from the department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as well as an MA in “European Administration” from the department of International and European Studies of Panteion University. She graduated with a BA in Communication and Mass Media from Panteion University in 1996.
She works as the general secretary of the Municipality of Filadelfeia-Chalkidona, responsible for the municipality’s administration and operation since September 2014. Prior to this, she worked at the Ministry of Administrative Reform and e-Governance for almost ten years (Dec 2004 – Sept 2014), where she was responsible for human resource management issues in the public sector, such as, public servant career systems, employee evaluation, tracing of training needs, recruitment processes for organisational unit managers, etc.
She lectures on the role of the National Public Administration in the EU at the National Centre of Public Administration since 2013. Furthermore, she has taught educational seminars on administrative and operational issues for the State, Public Administration and the European Union at the Institute of Education of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government for more than ten years.
She has participated in several conferences including: 6th Conference of Administrative Scientists, on "The personnel evaluation system for the Greek Public Administration as well as for the European Union employees", which took place in October 2015 at the Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese; 5th Conference of Administrative Sciences, entitled "The unbalanced relation between the Ombudsman and relevant Ministries seen through the example of EU policy against discrimination", held at the Democritus University of Thrace in November 2013; 2nd Conference of Public Policy and Institutions, held at Panteion University in December 2012 on the subject of "Public servants' uniform rank scale – pay scale (v. 4024/2011): The incomplete implementation of a reform effort."
She has published an article on "European policy for rail transportations in the Greek public administration" in the collective volume edited by A. Passas and T. Tsekos, entitled "European Integration and National Administration: the Greek experience", Papazisis publishers, Athens, 2009.
She is fluent in English and French.
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Eftychia Theodosiou
Eftychia Theodosiou is a PhD candidate at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, on European Union and Aviation: the example of the Single European Sky. He is a graduate of the Master's Program of Political Science and International Studies at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences with a specialization in European Administration. Since 1995 is a civil servant in the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, and by 2011 held a position as Head of Economics Department, DG Air Navigation Service Provider CAA. In the period from 1996 to 2000 he was a delegate of the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority to Eurocontrol, regarding route charging issues and cost drivers.
Posts:
Article in Financial Taxydromos "Human rights in the European Union" (1995),
"National Strategy", Chapter European Foreign Policy, Kanakis Publications (1999).
Made proposals for improvement of EKKDA's training programs and the study presented on "Redesign of Administrative Procedures" in IN.EP.(Training Institute) received distinction.
She speaks English, French and Spanish and has a piano diploma.
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Dimitris Tsagkalidis
The Chair holder
Anargyros (Argyris) Passas is Associate Professor of State Administration and European Integration, with the Department of International, European and Area Studies of the School of International Studies, Communication and Culture, Panteion University and holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Public Administration & European Integration (2014-2017).
He studied Political Sciences and International Relations at the Free University of Brussels (1975-1980) (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and he specialized in European Studies (Licence Spéciale en Politique Européenne) at the European Institute of the same university (1981-1984). His doctoral thesis (Department of Public Administration of the Panteion University (1988) was entitled "European Political Cooperation and the limits of intergovernmentalism: Contribution to the investigation of the integration dynamics and its effects on the functioning of the state after the adoption of the Single European Act" (supervisor D. Th. Tsatsos).
He is Director of the Centre for Institutional and Policy Analysis of the Panteion University, President of the Governing Board of the Hellenic University Association for European Studies (ECSA/Greece) and co-director of the book series "Public Policy and Institutional Analysis", Papazissis Publishers, Athens.
He teaches at Panteion University, the Hellenic Open University, the National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government and is a regular research and teaching associate with the Cyprus Academy of Public Administration. He has published books, articles and studies in journals and edited volumes in Greece and abroad, in the fields of European Integration, Public Policy and Public Administration. His latest book (2012) is titled, "National Public Administration in the European Union Policy Process", Athens, Papazisis (in Greek).
In his professional career he has worked in the European Parliament (1980-1984 and 1994-1996) and served as scientific advisor to the Ministers of Education and Religious Affairs and Foreign Affairs for the management of the third (1994) and fourth (2003) Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union. He has been founding member of the Centre for European Constitutional Law - Themistocles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation, member of the Scientific Council of the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA/IEAP Maastricht) and headed as Secretary General the National Centre of Public Administration (1996-2001). In 2010 to 2013 has also been project leader for the design and implementation of training activities of the Cyprus Public Administration for the preparation of the first Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union (July-December 2012).
