Speaker

Athanassios G. Platias is Professor of Strategy at the University of Piraeus. He is also
President of The Council for International Relations-Greece.
He received a degree in Public Law and Political Science (with excellence) from the Law Faculty of the University of Athens . He also received an M.A and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Department of Government at Cornell University.
He has been a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard University and at Cornell University; MacArthur Fellow at MIT and at Harvard University.
Professor Platias held several senior advisory positions in the public and private sector during the last 35 years. He was also Dean of the School of Economics, Business and International Studies, Chairman of the Department of International and European Studies and a member of the Supervisory Council of the University of Piraeus.
He is the author of numerous books and articles. He has written in four principal areas:
• Grand Strategy
• Geopolitics and Geoeconomics
• Greek Foreign and Defense Policy
• Theory of International Relations