Speaker

Athanasios  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 in International Peace and Security 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 five principal areas:

• Grand Strategy
• Geopolitics and Geoeconomics
• Greek Foreign and Defence Policy 
• Theory of International Relations
• International Security