Dr Dimitris Keridis is a Professor of International Relations at Panteion University, Athens Greece. Previously, he taught at the University of Macedonia, the Fletcher School, Tufts University and Harvard University. His research focuses on the intersection of international relations with comparative politics and he has written on the foreign policy of Greece, Turkey, the Balkan countries and the United States. Dimitris is the director of Navarino Network, a public policy think-tank in Thessaloniki, director of the Olympia Summer Academy, deputy director of the Institute of International Relations at Panteion University and senior research associate at the Konstantinos G. Karamanlis Foundation of Athens. In the past he served as director of the Kokkalis Foundation in Athens, director of the Kokkalis Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, international relations advisor to the Greek Foreign Ministry and research associate at the U.S. Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis.  Dimitris will contribute through his extensive knowledge and experience on international relations and European affairs.