Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is Professor of Political Science the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Research Associate of the Hellenic Observatory Centre, LSE and Senior Research Fellow of ELIAMEP in Athens. 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 EUI in Florence. He has taught at the Instituto Juan March (Madrid) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He serves on the editorial board of South European Society and Politics, Mediterranean Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. His publications include 7 monographs, 4 books and 10 edited or co-edited volumes in Greek and English.  He has co-edited (with K. Featherstone) The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics (Oxford: OUP, 2020). He has studied law, sociology, and political science at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (LLB), the LSE (MSc) and Yale University (MA, M.Phil., and Ph.D., awarded with distinction, 1991).

Research interests: Contemporary Greek, South European and Balkan politics, focusing on democratization, public administration, civil society, education, and the welfare state.