Speaker

Othon Anastasakis is Director of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX);former Director of the European Studies Centre in Oxford; Senior Research Fellow at St Antony’s College and of the Oxford School of Global and Area studies. He is Visiting Professor at the Prague School of Economics. He is currently the Principal Investigator of research programmes in Oxford on Greek Diaspora and on The Eastern Mediterranean. Previously he was Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada; Research fellow at the London School of Economics and EU expert at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has written extensively on Populism, illiberalism and euroscepticism; Comparative European politics; Migration and diaspora;Balkan politics; Russia and the Balkans; Greek history and politics. He received his BA in Economics from the University of Athens, his MA in Comparative Politics and International Relations from Columbia University, New York and his PhD in Comparative Government from the London School of Economics.