Director General, International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS), Athens; Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of the Aegean, Rhodes
Dr. Dimitrios Triantaphyllou is Director General of the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) since January 2006. He is also Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He was previously Special Advisor at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic (2004-2006); Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory of the European Institute at the LSE (2003-2004); Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies of the European Union, Paris (2001-2003); Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies of the Western European Union, Paris (1999-2001); Deputy Director of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens (1996-99); and Foreign Policy Advisor to a member of the European Parliament (1995).
He has written and edited a number of books and articles pertaining to foreign policy and international relations. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, a member of the Greek-Turkish Forum and a member of the Governing Board of the European Studies Institute which is based in Moscow.