Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geopolitics at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1), Archon Didaskalos tou Genous of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hellenic American University.
He holds a degree in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens and a Ph.D. in Geography and Planning from the Sorbonne. Professor at the Sorbonne from 1984 till 2018, he also directed the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School (2003–2005). He served twice as Greece’s Ambassador to the OECD (2013–2015 and 2019–2023).
Since 2023, he has been organizing the Applied Franco-Hellenic Dialogues (dialogues-francohelleniques-appliques.com), in collaboration with Michel Foucher.
His areas of specialization include theory of Geography and Geopolitics, the Geopolitics of Europe, the Balkans, and the Eastern Mediterranean and the Geopolitics of diasporas.
His most recent books are:
Who Are We? The Geopolitics of Greek Identity, Kerkyra–Economia Publishing, Athens, 2017, Qui sont les Grecs? Une identité en crise, CNRS Editions, Paris, 2017, and more