Dimitris Keridis is a Professor of International Relations at Panteion University of Athens in Greece. He is also a senior fellow at the Konstantinos G. Karamanlis Foundation and the deputy director of the Institute of International Relations in Athens. Since 2002 he has been directing the annual Olympia Summer Academy in Politics and International Studies (www.olympiasummeracademy.org); since 2009 the Navarino Network, a public policy think-tank based in Thessaloniki (www.navarinonetwork.org); and, since 2016 the book series “International Relations” at Pedio Publishing in Athens. He is also a regular media political commentator and the host of a weekly TV show on foreign affairs (Action24 TV and OnAlert.gr/Newsit.gr). 

He has served as a consultant at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the Constantine Karamanlis Associate Professor in Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, as the director of the Kokkalis Foundation in Athens, as the director of the Kokkalis Program on Southeast and East-Central Europe and an adjunct lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and, as a researcher at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, USA. 

His recent books in Greek include a monograph on “Nationalism, Ethnic Conflicts and International Relations: Theory and Practice in the Balkans” and “Constantine G. Karamanlis and the Foreign Press” as well as the editing, in both Greek and English, of the collective volume entitled “Thessaloniki: A city in transition, 1912-2012”.