Professor of Regional Administration and Local Government, University of Athens, Greece

He studied law at the University of Athens. Afterwards, he completed his postgraduate studies with a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) in Germany (University of Bremen), where he was awarded a Doctorate in Law. The publication of his thesis was funded by the Nolting-Hauff Stiftung in Germany. Since 1993 he has been teaching at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He has worked as Head of the Legal Department of the Hellenic Council for Refugees. He has been a member of the National Commission for Human Rights, a member of the Scientific Council of the National Centre for Public Administration and Self-Government, and a member of the Institute of Local Government. He was President of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (2010-2012). He has participated in many legislative and other committees as an expert, and was vice-chairman of the legislative drafting committee of the law "Kallikrates". He is a regular member of the Independent Committee of Experts at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Review of Administrative Sciences (IRAS) published by the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS).

He has participated in a large number of Greek and international research projects and studies, and his articles have been published in Greek and foreign journals and edited volumes. He has published five monographs and edited ten edited volumes.

Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History of 20th Century Greece, Department of Sociology, Panteion University

Professor Emeritus of Panteion University. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Panteion University, General Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Panteion University. Secretary of Social Insurance of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance. Since 2006 he has been publishing the scientific journal "SOCIAL Cohesion and Development".

His main books are:

• Papatheodorou Christos & Theodoros Sakellaropoulos (eds.), The Economics of Social Policy, Athens , Dionikos 2020
  Sackellaropoulos Theodoros, Charalambos Economou, Christoforos Skamnakis & Marina Angelaki (eds.), Social Policy, Dionikos, Athens, 2018.
• Maraveyas Napoleon & Theodoros Sakellaropoulos (eds.), Greece and European Integration. The History of a Multimodal Relationship, Dionikos, Athens, 2018.
• Sakellaropoulos, Th. & A. Stertgiou, (eds) (2011), Posted workers in Europe, The cases of Greece and Bulgaria Athens, EPEKSA 2011, (ISBN 978-960-9629-00-3)
• Sakellaropoulos, Th. (ed.) (2011), The Social Policy of the European Union, Athens, Athens Dionikos, ISBN 978-960-6619-62-5
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (2011) (ed.), Economy and Policy in Modern Greece, 4th, consolidated and enriched edition, Dionikos, Athens, ISBN 978-960-6619-66-3
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (2011), Issues of Social Policy, B' unified, revised edition, Dionikos, Athens (ISBN 978-960-6619-65-6),
• Stergios, A. and Sakellaropoulos, Th. (eds.) (2010), The Insurance Reform, Athens, Dionikos, 522p., ISBN 978-960-6619-58-8
• Sakellaropoulos, Th. (2006), Institutional Transformation and Economic Development. State and Economy in Greece 1830-1922, 2nd Edition, Dionikos, Athens (ISBN 960-6619-11-7)
• N. Maraveias, Th. Sakellaropoulos, (eds.) (2006),European integration and Greece. Economy, Society, Policies, Athens, Dionikos, Athens, Greece.
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (2004), Participatory Processes and European Integration. The Open Method of Coordination, ISTAME-A.PAPANDREOU Publications, Athens, Greece.
• Sakellaropoulos Th. and J. Berghman, (eds), (2004), Connecting Welfare Diversity within the European Social Model, Antwerpen-Oxford-New York , Intersentia (ISBN 90-5095-369-7)
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (2003), Texts of Economic and Social History, Dionikos, Athens (ISBN 960-87884-3-9)
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (2001), Transnational social policies in the era of globalisation: The Social Policies of International Organizations and the European Union, Kritiki, Athens (ISBN 960-218-209-1)
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (1999) (ed.) The Reform of the Social State, Kritiki, Athens, Athens, pp. 568 (ISBN 960-218-171-0)
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (1994), The Crises in Greece 1835-1857. Economic, Social and Political Aspects, Vol. B' 1846-1857, Kritiki, Athens (ISBN 960-218-079-x).
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (1993), The Crises in Greece 1835-1857. Economic, Social and Political Aspects, vol. A ' 1830-1845, Kritiki, Athens (ISBN 960-218-079-x).
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (1993), European Social Policy, Kritiki, Athens (ISBN 960-218-077-3).
• Sakellaropoulos T. (1993) (ed.), Neohellenic Society. Historical and Critical Approaches, Kritiki, Athens, p. 295 (ISBN 960-218-075-7)
• Sakellaropoulos T. (1992), Problematic Enterprises: State and Social Interests in the 1980s, Kritiki, Athens (ISBN 960-218-062-5)
• Sakellaropoulos Th, Th. Kalafatis, Z. Demathas, (1991), The Monetary Crises and their Management in Greece 1880-1930, Themelio, Athens (ISBN 960-310-153-2)
• Sakellaropoulos Th. (1991), Economy, Society, State in Greece between the wars, Informatization, Athens (ISBN 960-85203-0-4)
• Demathas Z., Th. Kalafatis, and Th. Sakellaropoulos, (1989), Currency-Credit-Economic Development. The Greek Economy 1830-1930, Stamoulis, Athens.

Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and European Integration, Department of Regional Administration and International Relations, Panteion University

Anargyros (Argyris) C. Passas is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and European Integration and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in Public Administration & European Integration. He studied Political Science and International Relations at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and specialized in European Studies (Licence Spéciale en Politique Européenne) at the Institute of European Studies of the same university. He holds a PhD from the Department of Public Administration of Panteion University on "European Political Cooperation and the limits of intergovernmentalism. Contribution to the investigation of the unifying dynamics. Effects on the functioning of the state mechanism after the adoption of the Single European Act" (Supervisor Professor Dimitris T. Tsatsos †).

He teaches at Panteion University, the Hellenic Open University, the National School of Public Administration and Local Government and is a regular research associate and instructor at the Cyprus Academy of Public Administration. He has published books, articles and studies in scientific journals and edited volumes in Greece and abroad in the fields of European integration, public policy and public administration. His latest books are. A relationship "through forty waves". 1981-2021. Field. Athens. (co-edited with K. Arvanitopoulos and M. Koppa) and (2020) The Depoliticisation of Greece's Public Revenue Administration: Radical Change and the Limits of Conditionality. Springer, Cham, Switzerland (with D. Dimitrakopoulos) and (2020) The Depoliticisation of Greece's Public Revenue Administration: Radical Change and the Limits of Conditionality. Springer, Cham, Switzerland (with D. Dimitrakopoulos).

In his professional career he has worked in the European Parliament (1980-1984 and 1994-1996), and has served as a Special Scientist at the Ministries of Education and Religious Affairs and Foreign Affairs for the third (1994) and fourth (2003) Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union. He was a member of the Scientific Council of the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA/IEAP Maastricht) and served as Secretary General of the National Centre for Public Administration (1996-2001). From 2010 to 2013 he was the scientific officer responsible for the design and implementation of the training activities of the Cyprus Public Administration for the first Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU (July-December 2012).

His research interests include the fields of European Integration (Institutions, organisation and functioning, decision-making and policies of the EU), Public Policy and Public Administration at national, European/regional and international level.

Administrative Scientist Assistant Ombudsman

Yannis S. Kostis studied political science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a Master's degree from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the same University, specializing in "State and Public Policy".

He is a graduate of the National School of Public Administration and Local Government.

He serves as a special scientist at the Ombudsman and served as an Assistant Ombudsman in the Social Protection Circle during the period 2018-2021.

His scientific interests are related to the organization and efficiency of public administration. He has published articles on historical and social institutions, as well as on social security and solidarity, with a focus on social protection actors.

Deputy Mayor of Strategic Planning of the Municipality of Kalamata, Civil Engineer with postgraduate specialization in architecture / environmental design of cities and buildings

Graduate of the School of Civil Engineering NTUA with postgraduate studies at the School of Architecture NTUA, MSc Architecture / Urban Planning and at the School of Techn. MSc Environmental Design of Cities and Buildings, MSc Environmental Design of Cities and Buildings. He is a PhD candidate in Architecture of NTUA and since 2024 he is Deputy Mayor of Strategic Planning and Climate Neutrality of the Municipality of Kalamata.
He is co-founder of the interdisciplinary group Ey-place, which is active in promoting the value of public space and organized the exhibition Imagine the City: Kalamata 2015, of Filmhouse / New Film Club of Kalamata, and participates in initiatives such as Kalamatamove, the interactive platform for the mobility of disabled people in Kalamata and Voices through the Buildings, the electronic database for recording and highlighting the buildings of Kalamata.