Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Senior Research Fellow at the ELIAMEP research foundation (Athens) and research associate of the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has been visiting fellow at the LSE, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, the “Sciences Po”, Paris, Harvard’s Center of European Studies, Princeton’s Center for Hellenic Studies and the European University Institute in Florence. He has taught as a visiting professor at the Instituto Juan March (Madrid) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). He serves on the editorial board of the journals South European Society and Politics, Mediterranean Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. He is head of the Laboratory of Political Communication in his university department and member of the Administrative Board of the Hellenic Political Science Association (EEPE). Dimitri does research on democratization, populism, public administration, civil society, education, and the welfare state in Greece, Southern Europe, and the Balkans in comparative perspective. His publications include 6 monographs, 5 co-authored books and 10 edited or co-edited volumes in Greek and English and numerous articles in international and Greek journals of political science and sociology. He has studied law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (LLB), and sociology/political sociology the LSE (MSc) and Yale University (MA, M.Phil., and Ph.D., awarded with distinction, 1991).

He graduated from Athens College in 1979.

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