Speaker

Dimitris Kairidis is a member of the Greek Parliament, representing Athens-North for the center-right party of New Democracy. 

Currently, he is the Vice Chairman of the Committee of European Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament and of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is a Member and Coordinator of the Greek parliamentary delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe. He is a Member of the parliamentary Committee on Commerce and Production and a Member and Special Coordinator for Economic Affairs of the Inter-Party Committee for the Development of Thrace. 

By profession, he is a Professor of International Politics at Panteion University of Athens and he has taught at many universities in Greece and abroad. He is the Founding Director of the Navarino Network, an innovative public-policy think-tank, in Thessaloniki, and he has been a regular TV/Radio political commentator. 

He has published extensively on international politics, including books on nationalism and ethnic conflict, US foreign policy and Greek-Turkish relations both in Greek and in English.