At ANATOLIA COLLEGE we are committed to protect and respect your privacy in compliance with EU- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679, dated April 27th 2016, and especially Greek law 4624/2019 for the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Processing of Personal Data [Especially the main provisions of Greek law 4624/2019 for the harmonization of Greek legislation with GDPR]. This privacy statement explains when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure. This Privacy Statement applies to the use of our services and our customer contract fulfilment activities. It also applies to individuals seeking a job at ANATOLIA COLLEGE.

Who we are

ANATOLIA COLLEGE is a non-profit educational organization with a long tradition and offering at all levels of education. It was founded in 1886 in Merzifon (Turkey) and in 1924 settled in Thessaloniki. Designed with excellence, ground-breaking educational activities and high-level teaching, ANATOLIA COLLEGE has become an educational center with pan-Hellenic and international recognition. The educational organization maintains one of the largest scholarship programs in Greece, as well as a multifaceted program of social actions and contributions.

The institution has an elementary school (Pre-K6), two middle and high schools, an IB program that prepares students for university study worldwide, and the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), an institution of higher learning offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a variety of fields. ANATOLIA COLLEGE students have access to a variety of extracurricular activities, which not only foster a collaborative spirit but also individualism, thereby acting as a platform for students to realize untapped talents and strengths.

Why do we collect and use personal data?

We collect and use personal data mainly to perform our educational services. We also collect data about suppliers, partners and persons seeking a job or working in our organization.

What type of personal data is collected?

We collect the following: name, phone number, email address, address, job title, profile of studies. Our legal base for personal data collection is the relevant educational legislation.

We may also collect feedback, comments and questions received from you in service-related communication and activities, such as, phone calls, documents, and emails. From our websites we may collect IP-address and actions taken on the site.

ANATOLIA COLLEGE does not collect or process any special categories of personal data, unless regulatory and legislative obligations exist and under the conditions of General Data Protection Regulation (Article 9, paragraph 2).

When do we collect personal data about you?

• When you are using our educational services.
• When you interact with us in person, through correspondence, by phone, by mail, by social media, or through our websites.
• When we collect personal information from other legitimate sources, such as third-party data aggregators, public sources or social networks. We only use this data if you have given your consent to them to share your personal data with others.

We may use your information for the following purposes:

• Send you information about our educational and/or related services that we provide
• Send you communications including information about our services, events, school and academic activities.
• Perform activities in cases where legitimate and mutual interest is established.
• Provide you content and venue details on a seminar or event you signed up for.
• Reply to a ‘Contact me’ or other web forms you have completed on one of our websites.
• Follow up on incoming requests (support, emails, chats, or phone calls).
• Perform contractual obligations such as order confirmation, license details, invoice, reminders, and similar.
• Notify you about any disruptions to our services.
• Contact you to conduct surveys about your opinion on our services.
• Process a job application.

How do we use our students’ and parents’ data?

• to support student learning
• to monitor and report on student progress
• to provide appropriate care
• to provide scholarships and financial aid
• to assess the quality of our educational services
• to support you to decide what to do after you leave school

Categories of student information that we collect, hold and share include:

• Personal information (such as name, unique student number and contact details)
• Characteristics (such as ethnicity, language, nationality, country of birth and free school meal eligibility)
• Attendance information (such as sessions attended, number of absences and absence reasons)
• National curriculum assessment results
• Special educational needs information1 [1]
• Relevant medical information* [2]

Collecting personal data based on consents

The collection of personal data based on consent from the data subject will be done by using “Consent Forms” that will store documentation related to the consent given by the individual. Individual consents will always be stored and documented in our systems.

Collecting personal data based on contracts

We use personal information for fulfilling our obligations related to contracts and agreements with customers, partners and suppliers.

Collecting personal data based on legitimate interest

We may use and process personal data if it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by ANATOLIA COLLEGE or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

How long do we keep your personal data?

We store personal data for as long as we find it necessary to fulfill the purpose for which the personal data was collected, while also considering our need to answer your queries or resolve possible problems, to comply with legal requirements under applicable laws, to attend to any legal claims/complaints, and for safeguarding purposes. [3]

This means that we may retain your personal data for a reasonable period of time after your last interaction with us. When the personal data that we have collected is no longer required, we will delete it in a secure manner. We may process data for statistical purposes, but in such cases, data will be anonymized.

Your rights to your personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data according to the GDPR and the Greek legislation:

• The right to request a copy of your personal data that ANATOLIA COLLEGE holds about you.
• The right to request that ANATOLIA COLLEGE corrects your personal data if inaccurate or out of date.
• The right to request that your personal data is deleted when it is no longer necessary for us to retain such data, unless the further retention and the processing are necessary for reasons mentioned in the GDPR. The right to withdraw any consent to personal data processing at any time, without prejudice to the lawfulness of the consent-based processing before the withdrawal in question. For example, your consent to receive informational communications:

If you want to withdraw your consent to receive informational communications, please contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Please note that you may still receive system messages and administrative communications from us such as order confirmations, system messages and notifications about your account activities.

• The right to request that ANATOLIA COLLEGE provides you with your personal data and, if possible, to pass on this information directly (in a portable format) to another data controller when the processing is based on consent or contract.
• The right to request a restriction on further data processing, in case there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data.
• The right to object to the processing of personal data, in case data processing has been based on legitimate interest and/or direct marketing.

Any query about your Privacy Rights should be sent to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The use of cookies and beacons

We use cookies and web beacons (‘Website Navigational Information’) to collect information as you navigate the company’s websites. Website Navigational Information includes standard information from your web browser, such as browser type and browser language; your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address; and the actions you take on the company’s websites, such as the web pages viewed and the links clicked.

This information is used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site, and to gather such personal data as browser type and operating system, referring page, path through site, domain of ISP, etc. for the purposes of understanding how visitors use a website. Cookies and similar technologies help us tailor our website to your personal needs, as well as to detect and prevent security threats and abuse. If used alone, cookies and web beacons do not personally identify you. 

You can find more information about the Cookie and Relevant Technologies Policy in the following link: https://anatolia.edu.gr/en/cookie-policy

Do we share your data with anyone?

We routinely share pupil information with:

• schools or colleges that our students attend after leaving us
• Ministry of Education

We do not share, sell, rent, or trade your information with any third parties without your consent, except from what is described below:

Third-party Service Providers working on our behalf:

We may pass your information on to our distributors, agents, sub-contractors and other associated organizations with the purpose of them providing services to you on our behalf.

If required by law:

We will disclose your personal information if required by law or if we, as an organization, reasonably believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our organization’s rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process. However, we will do what we can to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.

Use of sub-contractors (processors and sub-processors)

We may use sub-contractors to process personal data on our behalf; we are responsible for making sure they commit themselves to adhere to this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection legislation by signing a Data Processing Agreement.

If the sub-contractor processes Personal Data outside the EU/EEA area, such processing shall take place under the provisions and conditions of the GDPR is Regulation, the conditions laid down in this Chapter are complied with by the controller and processor, including the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for transfer to third countries, or another specifically stated lawful basis for the transfer of personal data to a third country.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

ANATOLIA COLLEGE reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. The applicable version will always be found on our websites. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

If we make changes that significantly alter our privacy practices, we will notify you by email or post a notice on our websites prior to the change taking effect.

Your right to complain with a supervisory authority

If you are unhappy with the way in which your personal data has been processed, you may, in the first instance, contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you remain dissatisfied, then you have the right to apply directly to your national supervisory authority for a decision.

Last Update: 10 November 2020

[1], [2], [3] Anatolia keeps information about you on computer systems and also on paper based on the Ministry decision 10645/2018 and relevant legislation.

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The Hellenic Initiative, the U.S. Consulate General Thessaloniki, the ACT - American College of Thessaloniki and the VentureGarden would like to invite you to a lecture given by the lecturer of John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center of the University of Iowa, Kurt F. Heiar.

The event will take place on Wednesday, the 13th of June, 2018, at 7 p.m, in the Bissel Library of ACT.

With his valuable experience serving as his guide, and having served as President and CEO in prestigious corporations in the USA, Kurt F. Heiar will present the basic steps of the transformation of an idea to a successful and viable enterprise. He will also discuss the challenges that a new entrepreneur may face, the types and the goals of the investors and the value of innovation as an important part of business strategies.

Register here

In a unique exercise in track-two diplomacy, the Dukakis Center and the Center for International and European Studies at Kadir Has University in Istanbul (CIES) co-hosted a round table on Friday, May 18, on geopolitics in the Aegean, with a particular focus on the triangular Greek-Turkish-US relationship.

An all-star panel of scholars from Kadir Has and select Greek universities set the stage for an understanding of Greek-Turkish, and Turkish-Greek, bilateral relations. Notable was the revelation that very few academic programs exist in Turkish and Greek universities with a formal focus on the neighboring country. Co-organizer Dimitris Triantafyllou, the director of CIES, observed that Kadir Has is an exception in this regard, where Greek and Turkish scholars collaborate pedagogically on a daily basis.

So mentioned was the fact that while Greeks may seem preoccupied by their Aegean neighbors, for many Turks Greece does not rank particularly high as friend or foe. Rather, in popular opinion, if not in policy circles, Israel is now seen to be a major rival, while Russia is felt by many to be Turkey’s closest friend; such was pointed out by Mustapha Aydin, President of the International Relations Council of Turkey.

Overt criticism was generally minimal. Characteristic was the tone adopted by Pavlos Apostolides, former Director of Greek National Intelligence, whose intervention was at once precise and understated. One exception came in the presentation by John Koenig, former US Ambassador to Cyprus, who expressed his fear that long-time allies Turkey and the United States seemed to be drifting apart.

The prevailing mood was rather one of accommodation and mutual understanding, as befits a landmark event with preeminent speakers. As one observer noted, there is a reason to be optimistic about the state of Greek-Turkish relations in particular, despite certain current and long-standing concerns.

The Dukakis Center, ACT, and Anatolia College have organized many events on local and regional affairs, featuring speakers such as Elizabeth Prodromou, Van Coufoudakis, Suhnaz Yilmaz, Van Coufoudakis, Alvaro de Soto, Heath Lowry, and Kostas Ifantis.

In attendance at the event were Giorgos Paschalides, former Minister of Macedonia-Thrace; Spyros Pengas, Deputy Mayor for International Relations; and William McGrew, former President of Anatolia College.

Professor of World Religions at ACT, Greek ambassador of Globethics, head of the environmental campaign at the Center for Ecumenical, Missiological and Environmental Studies (CEMES), a frontman in the indie-rock band “The Gang”. Nikos Dimitriadis is a genuine performer - a "rock star" as the Huffington Post wrote.

He gives concerts for thousands of people, promotes environmental justice among young people worldwide through his music project called "Smile", and at the same time keeps his energy and spirit up for his students at ACT.

Globethics, Religion, Environmental Consciousness. And rock music. What is the common ground between these fields?

You can find common ground in themes that, at first sight, look different and then start building a relationship on them. This is how I live my life. For me it’s so natural to live with all those mentioned and even more in my everyday practice. First, they all have to do with ethics, conducts and performances. 

Take for example, rock music. Rock is not a genre; is an attitude. Playing my music is an exhilarating experience. I have exactly the same feeling when I am in class teaching ethics. Singing and teaching are both performances. You give your best in front of an audience. 

What are the updates and the results of your world tour? How do people respond to this a music project that carries a message?

To start with, it was a great experience. This world is so colorful and diverse and that’s its beauty. There are so many identities! People think in different ways, act differently but there is common ground that unite us all. I think this is a common, yet unwritten code of ethics. In order to understand someone’s perspective you should first understand their context. A world tour helps you realize this. The Smile World Tour does not convey a common message to all. It’s more of a suggestion to look things from a different perspective. I would say that “SMILE” it’s not a theory. It’s more of an action. It enhances you to perform, which brings us to performance again.

What has this experience offered you on a personal level? Is it useful for your teaching?

A World Tour can definitely offer you a lot. As a Historian of Religions, I experienced and materialized many things I was reading all those years during my personal research. Through World Religions one can examine the religious beliefs of persons as they develop through time and space and as we comprehend them in a framework of cultural and psychological data.

A tour offers a unique approach to those data. Interacting with people of different cultural, religious or, I’d better say, spiritual beliefs and experiences, can bring you closer to the comprehension of humanity in general through the study of sentiments and attitudes. I think this experience added value also to my teaching. The students’ comments in their evaluations of my teaching make a special reference to the fact that I use real life examples in class during my course on World Religions and this greatly facilitates their understanding of the religious traditions of several spiritual backgrounds we examine.

Can you share with us some of your methods and teaching approaches?

“Imagination is more important than knowledge” said Albert Einstein. I’m trying to light up students' imagination.

Books provide knowledge and the role of the educator is to open this window of knowledge and provide students with the tools to build their own worldview.

Something else I constantly keep in mind is that when a student fails it’s not only a student’s fault. Educators should be always alert to the fact that education and pedagogies are changing and they should try to find ways to make their courses more attractive to their students. 

If I would use only one word to describe my method, I would use the word “interactive”. In class we share experiences and real life examples and we try to understand ourselves, each other and the universality and multiplicity of the various traditions.

What do you enjoy most about ACT? How would you describe it?

Being in class! When I say “class” at ACT I don’t only mean the curricular but also the co-curricular and extracurricular experiences. ACT not only provides but also encourage this way of “learning in action”. 

Thessaloniki’s ACT is a crossroad of civilizations and more than any other institution in the region it offers this intercultural opportunity to our students.

If I would like to describe this teaching experience at ACT I would say that those classes are a journey of discovery both personal and of this world.

Through that journey we become more appreciative of the “experience of being human in the universe”.

It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there. - William Carlos Williams

On Tuesday evening, May 22, over 60 people participated at an event co-organized by the English department of ACT-American College of Thessaloniki and the ΣΑΙΞΠΗΡΙΚόΝ bookstore to discuss the new Greek poetry as brought together in the award-winning bilingual anthology “Austerity Measures/Μέτρα Λιτότητας” (Penguin, New York Review Books, Άγρας). It was the anthology’s first ever presentation in Greece, occasioned by its recent Greek edition.

The event was part of a series established by the ACT English department that aims to bring academic discussions beyond a classroom setting, expanding its boundaries.

Joined by six of the anthology’s poets Yorgos Alisanoglou, Vassilis Amanatidis,
Glykeria Basdeki, Thomas Ioannou, Elsa Korneti and Stamatis Polenakis, the anthology’s editor Karen Van Dyck, Hellenic Studies professor at Columbia University and Eleni Godi, Coordinator of the ACT English undergraduate program, set the background frame and presented the history behind the anthology’s conception and creation. Following the reading of a number of poems and brief statements by the participating poets, the prize-winning playwright and poet Sakis Serefas moderated a lively and thought-provoking discussion that centered around complex but necessary questions: how can one define poetry written at the margins; how did the publishing journey of poetry written in the provinces change at the age of internet; what are the implications of what Serefas called “the foreign perspective” to the new Greek poetry, the editor’s perspective, in this case? Finally, he challenged the use of the term “anthology” for this particular work, calling it “composition” instead. Towards the end, poets took turns and offered their reflection on their own presence within “Austerity Measures”.

The wine and cheese small reception that followed the discussion proved an excellent opportunity for further talk; ACT students had the chance to meet their favorite poet, books were signed, poets mingled with the audience and ideas for future events already started flowing.

Greek Landscape: Paintings by Barry Feldman opens at Bissell Library on the ACT campus of Anatolia College on 25 May, and is scheduled to run through 7 September. The exhibition represents thirty years of the artist’s devotion to the landscape of his adopted country, from Crete in the south to Nevrokopi, Drama, in the north. A main focus is the mountain of Penteskoufi at Ancient Corinth in the Peloponnese. Another concentration is on Thessaloniki and the surrounding area, including Dasos Kouri, and on Halkidiki. Also exhibited are paintings of Naoussa, Pieria, Epirus, Florina, Drama, Santorini and Lemnos. All of the thirty-four paintings are oil on canvas and range in size from 60 x 75 cm to 125 x 175 cm.

Barry Feldman, a native of New York City, studied art history at Swarthmore College. He settled in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where he received a Canada Council Arts Award for his landscape paintings. His work has also been shown in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and North Carolina. In 1989 he moved to Thessaloniki, and was one of the founders of the Artists Initiative Amalgama.

His paintings – landscape, still life and self-portraits – as well as his “boxes” and sculptures, and his photographs, have been presented in one-man shows at the Mikri Pinakothiki Diagonios, the Dimitria Festival, the American Cultural Center of the U.S. Consulate General of Thessaloniki, the Ionian Center in Athens, the Sani Festival, the French Institute of Thessaloniki, the Vafopoulio Cultural Center; Gallery CEDEFOP, Stereosis Gallery, Art Forum, and Eirmos Gallery. Most recently, his Poussin: Restructured paintings were shown at the Teloglion Foundation of Arts, AUTH.

The 1st Annual Anatolia Lacrosse Cup - the first in Greece for that matter - organized by the American College of Thessaloniki was just the beginning. 1st GEL Pylaia, 2nd GEL Polichni, and Anatolia College High School all entered the field full of enthusiasm to play one of the most popular sports in America.

Many congratulations to 1st GEL Pylaia for winning the cup, and a special thanks to everyone who took part!

The following Anatolia College students participated in the Cup: Elias Zacharopoulos , George Nimatoudis, Panagiota Konstantinou, Aris Koutsopoulos, Panagiotis Damianidis, George Nathaniel, Alexandra Drakaki, Konstantinos Dimistos, Andreas Papadopoulos, Thanasis Arnaoutoglou, Angelos Avgoustinakis, Vassilis Georgiadis, Dimitris Kamaris, Theodora Kessapidou, Vassilis Bakopoulos, Vangelis Benis, Stergios Biala, Lucy Miskia, Nikos Ekonomidis, Valasia Papaioannou, Themis Denertzioglou, Marilia Boutsi.

The team was coached by Christina Daniskas, International Programs Office Fellow at the ACT.

Ms. Karina Iskandarova, a third year student at the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), has been awarded the Newman Civic Fellowship by Campus Compact. Campus Compact is a US coalition of 1,000+ colleges and universities committed to the public purposes of higher education. Its purpose is to build democracy through civic education and community development.

Ms. Iskandarova is studying International Relations with a full scholarship. Karina has been active in Student Government and initiated the successful collection of food and other suppliesfor the Thessaloniki's Homeless Shelter and for the refugees in the city. She applied for the Humanity in Action scholarship (through the 'Humanity in Action', an international educational organization) and for the summer scholarship for young student leaders through the Fulbright institution. Although she did not eventually receive any of the two scholarships, she was short - listed to both and went through the interview process.

More recently, she was part of a research project within the Anatolia community, the Oral History Archives Project, through the Bissell Library and received training at the Historical Archives of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. She interviewed older members of the Anatolia community on issues of greater interest in terms of the educational, social and cultural history of Thessaloniki.

The Newman Civic Fellowship recognizes and supports community-committed students who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country. The fellowship was created in honor of Frank Newman, one of Campus Compact's founders and a tireless advocate for the role of higher education in preparing students for active and engaged citizenship. It provides training and exclusive virtual and in-person learning opportunities focused on the skills fellows need in order to serve as effective agents of change. It helps students to develop strategies for achieving social change, addressing public problems and building equitable communities. Through the fellowship, Campus Compact supports the next generation of public problem solvers in their personal, professional, and civic growth.

In particular, Ms. Iskandarova will be engaged in raising awareness within the ACT and the wider Thessaloniki community regarding the UN Sustainable Development Goals and for the next year she plans to focus on the promotion of literacy and educational opportunities for Roma girls in the region of Thessalonikiunder the supervision of Dr. Maria Patsarika who will be her mentor. Later in 2018 she will be traveling to Boston for the Newman Civic Fellows National Conference that will take place on November 17-18, 2018.

A round table on Greek - Turkish - US relations
Friday, May 18, 17:00 -20:00
Piraeus Bank Conference Center (Katouni 14, Thessaloniki)

Join the event

Greece and Turkey are neighbors, foes, and allies, joined geographically by a unique and occasionally disputed border over land and sea, allied bilaterally the one and the other with the United States, and multilaterally through NATO, while Turkey is also a candidate for membership in the European Union.

In the past weeks, reports in English international media outlets have claimed that Greece and Turkey are closer to war than at any time since 1996, and conversely, more closely aligned, and more peaceful, than ever before.

Tensions remain high, alarmingly so to outside observers, in part owing to the unprecedented uncertainty emanating from the Administration of President Donald J. Trump, the US having long played the role of guarantor of stability in the Aegean.

Add Russian interests in the region, the impact of the ongoing military and refugee crisis in Syria, and challenges to democracy and the rule of law on both sides of the Atlantic (with elections certain in Turkey and in the US, and possible in Greece, in 2018), and you have a volatile mix.
What should one expect going forward? Is the current climate reminiscent in any way of previous periods in local history, or are we called upon to recast this history in a new and potentially unsettling light? Will tensions escalate? Who, if not the US (and NATO), can act as an honest broker in regional affairs?

In a unique collaborative venture, the Dukakis Center and the Center for International and European Studies will convene a distinguished group of scholars, practitioners, and diplomats for a public debate on these and other questions and issues.

Working language: English

Participants

Pavlos Apostolides graduated from the Athens Law School, University of Athens, and served in the Hellenic Diplomatic Service from 1965 to 2004.. Among other posts, he was Ambassador of Greece to Cyprus and Permanent Representative of Greece to the European Union in Brussels. He has also served as General Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Director of the National Intelligence Agency. Ambassador Apostolides was a Director of Alpha Bank A.E. between 2004 and 2011 and has been a Non-Executive Independent Director of Alpha Bank A.E. since June 26, 2012.

Mustafa Aydın is Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University and, since 2004, the President of the International Relations Council of Turkey. He held the position of Rector of Kadir Has University between February 2010 and March 2018. He is also Governing Board Member of the OECD International Management of Higher Education Programme and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Professor Aydın previously worked at Ankara University (1994-2005) and TOBB University of Economics and Technology (2005-2009); and was guest researcher/lecturer at Michigan (1998), Harvard (2002, Fulbright fellow), and Athens (2003, Onassis Fellow) Universities, as well as the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies (1999, Unesco Fellow) and the EU Institute for Security Studies (2003). He is a member of the Global Relations Forum (GIF), International Studies Association (ISA), Turkish Atlantic Council, Turkish Political Sciences Association, International Network on Regional Security, and the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS). He was a member of the Economy and Foreign Policy Study Group of the President of Turkey (2003-2009); Co-Coordinator of the International Commission on Black Sea (2010); and Director of International Policy Research Institute (2005-2011).

Maria Bozoudi is an international affairs executive with expertise in European integration, the Balkans, diplomacy and globalization. She holds post-graduate degrees from the University of Macedonia and George Washington University., and is currently conducting post-doc research on the history and practices of economic diplomacy. She has worked for more than 15 years on post-conflict Balkan reconstruction, with stints at the Business Advisory Council for Southeastern Europe and Eurasia, the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe, and the Business Information Clearing Center. She is currently Adjunct Professor of International Relations at ACT.

Mitat Celikpala is Professor of International Relations and Dean of the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Kadir Has University, where he teaches undergraduate and post-graduate courses. Professor Çelikpala’s subject expertise covers the history, society and security of Eurasia and the former Soviet territories, diaspora studies, the Black Sea region, Turkey-Russia relations, energy security, critical infrastructure security, and the complexities of terrorism. Having concluded his BA at Middle East Technical University, Dr. Çelikpala then received a Master’s degree at Hacettepe University and a PhD at Bilkent University. He is also a Senior Associate Member of Oxford University’s St. Anthony’s College. Dr. Çelikpala has served as an academic advisor to NATO’s Centre of Excellence Defense against Terrorism (DATR), the Turkish Armed Forces’ Strategic Research Centre, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Strategic Research Center.

Serhat Guvenc received his BA and MA degrees from Marmara University and his PhD in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He is currently a Professor of International Relations and Chair of the Department of International Relations at Kadir Has University. Previously he held faculty positions at Istanbul Bilgi University, the University of Chicago, Koç University, and Boğaziçi University. Dr. Güvenç’s research interests include Turkish foreign and security policy and Turkish naval policy and history. He is the author of: The Ottomans’ Quest for Dreadnoughts, Istanbul, 2009, Turkey in the Mediterranean during the Interwar Era (Indiana University Turkish Studies, 2010) (with Dilek Barlas) and 60 Years in NATO: Turkey’s Contributions to Transatlantic Security, (Istanbul, 2013). His articles have appeared in Middle Eastern Studies, International Journal of Naval History, Uluslararası İlişkiler, Exotierika Themata(Greek), Journal of Strategic Studies, GMF Mediterranean Papers, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, International Journal, Turkish Studies and Turkish Policy Quarterly. His most recent article, co-authored with Mesut Uyar, “One Battle, Two Accounts: The Turkish Brigade at Kunu-ri in November 1950” was published in The Journal of Military History. Professor Güvenç is a board member of the Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants and advisory board member of Koç University’s Maritime Forum (KUDENFOR).

Kostas Ifantis is an Associate Professor of International Relations, Department of International Relations, Kadir Has University and at Panteion University of Athens. He worked as a Lecturer in International and European Politics at the Universities of Bradford and Portsmouth, UK (1991-1995). He was a USIA Visiting Fellow at the Center for Political studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1998) a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2002), an IAA Senior Research Fellow at the LSE (2009), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Seul (Summer 2016). Between 2005 and 2008 he served as Director for Research at the Policy Planning Center of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His papers have appeared in edited books and in periodicals such as Democratization, Turkish Studies, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Perceptions, International Journal, etc. His books include Greece in a Changing Europe (co-ed., Manchester University Press, 1996); NATO in the New European Order (Macmillan, 1996); Theory and Reform in the European Union (Manchester University Press, 2002); NATO and the New Security Paradigm (Frank Cass 2002); Turkish-Greek Relations: The Security Dilemma in the Aegean (co-ed., Routledge, 2004); International Security Today (co-ed., SAM, 2006); Multilateralism and Security Institutions in an Era of Globalization (co-ed., Routledge, 2009); International Political Theory: and The charm of realist discourse (in Greek, 2012); Is Europe Afraid of Europe? (ed., Wilfrid Martens Center, 2014).

Alexander Karagiannis is a former Foreign Service officer who was senior advisor to the director general of the State Department. He has previously served as DCM in Sofia, and as an office director in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (twice). He has expertise in national security as both practitioner and analyst, specializing in NATO, European, Russian and Mediterranean affairs. Mr. Karagiannis has been visiting associate professor at The George Washington University, and is the co-author of "Building a Foreign Service for 2025 and Beyond."

John Koenig joined the US Foreign Service in 1984 and held a number of senior positions in U.S. diplomatic missions in Europe. A graduate of Foreign Relations from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, he has been posted in East Berlin. Nicosia, Athens, and, as Principal Officer, at the American Consulate General Thessaloniki 2000-03. Between 2003 and 2006, Koenig was Deputy Permanent Representative and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels. From 2012 till his retirement in 2015 he was US Ambassador to Cyprus.

Sotiris Serbos is Assistant Professor of International Politics at Democritus University of Thrace and Research Fellow in European Foreign Policy at Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence of the University of Athens, in Greece. He has served as special adviser in the Hellenic Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Economy. He holdws degrees from the University of Macedonia (BA), the London School of Economics & Political Science (MSc) and the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (Ph.D.). In 2014-2015, he has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in the field of transatlantic relations at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Pittsburgh’s EU Center of Excellence. His research interests include international organizations, European integration and foreign policy analysis, with emphasis on Southast Europe, Greek and Turkish foreign policy. His policy experience includes memberships at Gerson Lehrman Group’s Policy & Economics Council and Capvision International.

Dimitrios Triantaphyllou is the Director of the Center for International and European Studies at Kadir Has University since September 2010, where he is also an Associate Professor of International Relations. He holds a BA in Political Science and History from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA and PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He was previously Director General of the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS) and Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of the Aegean, Rhodes (2006-2010). He was also 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 European security, developments in the Black Sea region and South-Eastern Europe, and Greek foreign policy. He is also Associate Editor of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (SSCI-indexed), a member of the Greek-Turkish Forum, and a co-convener of the Commission on the Black Sea.

David Wisner holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from the University of Rochester. He has written on the French Revolution, neo-idealist epistemology, and neo-classical art in various peer reviewed journals. He has also published one monograph, in the series Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (Oxford). Since coming to Greece in the mid-1990s he has been particularly active in such issues as civic education, public policy, and US involvement in Southeast Europe, having participated in events and projects organized by the World Bank, the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Stability Pact, the German Marshall Fund, the US Embassy in Athens and the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, among others. He appears regularly to discuss US and international politics on Greek radio and television, and writes occasional commentary for a Greek newspaper. In his capacity as Director of the Dukakis Center Dr. Wisner has also organized innumerable lectures, round tables, and workshops on national, regional, and international public policy issues. At ACT he conducts advanced seminars in US Policy in Southeast Europe, contemporary diplomacy, and political theory. He also teaches a prototype freshman pro-seminar in citizenship education.

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