PEOPLE

Antonios Moysidis studied at the Panteios Athens School of Social and Political Sciences (1968-1972). He completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Bremen in Germany, where he also defended his doctoral thesis in 1982. He has worked as a researcher in various research centres and from 1983 to 1999 he has been a member of the Administration of the Research and Planning Division of the Agricultural Bank of Greece. Since 1994, he has been teaching Rural Sociology at the Department of Social Policy of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He has published lots of books and articles in journals and volumes.

Savas Robolis is Professor of the Economics of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy, Panteion University. He is scientific director at the Labour Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (INE/GSEE). He is the author of books, articles and papers at conferences, as well as a member of working groups for the elaboration of issues of economic and social policy, such as: “The Migration of Greeks in Western Germany”, “Health and Development”, “Social Security”, “Social Polity after the Crisis of the Welfare State”, “Foreign Investment in Greece”, “Development in Eastern Aegean Sea”, “Health and Security at Work”, “Demography and Social Security”, “The Role of Partnership in the Promotion of Social Cohesion”, “Employment Policies of the European Union”, “The Reduction of Working Time”, “A Proportional Study in the System of Social Security in Greece”, “Greek Economics and Employment”, “European Monetary Union and Structural Changes in Greece”, “Economic Theories and Economic Policies in Greece (1980-2000)”, “Health and Economy”, “Work and Economy”.

Theodosia Anthopoulou, Ph.D. in Human Geography (Univ. Paris X- Nanterre, 1993), is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Policy since 2003. Her research interests and publications centre on Rural Geography with emphasis on rural restructuring and multifunctionality, social and spatial recomposition, exclusion/ inclusion in rural societies, localised agrofood systems, territorial development, Euromediterranean cooperation.

Maria Karamessini is Associate Professor in Labour Economics and Economics of the Welfare State. Her research and publications cover the following issues: labour market analysis and policy, gender and employment, youth transitions from education to work, labour flexibility and industrial restructuring, employment and social models. Since 1996 she is member of the European Commission Expert Group on “Gender and Employment” and assesses Greek employment policy from a gender equality perspective. Recent publications:

• The Integration of University Graduates in the Greek Labour Market, Athens: Dionicos, 2008, 371 pages (in Greek)
• ‘Continuity and change in the southern European social model’, International Labour Review, 147 (1), 2008, pp. 43-70.
• ‘Gender equality in employment. Review and assessment of the policies of the last decade in Greece’, in M. Stratigaki (ed.), Policies for Gender Equality: European Directions and National Experiences, Athens: Gutenberg, 2008.
• ‘Wage Determination and the Gender Pay Gap: a Feminist Political Economy Analysis and Decomposition’, Feminist Economics 13 (1), 2007, pp. 31-66 (with Elias Ioakimoglou).

Ioannis Kouzis, Associate Professor, studied law at the Law School of the University of Athens and completed his postgraduate studies in Social Law at the University of Paris Χ – Nanterre. From the same university he received his doctorate in 1986. Since 1995, he has taught at the Department of Social Policy and Social Anthropology of the Panteion University and then at the Department of Social Policy. Since 1991, he has been a scientific consultant in issues of industrial relations at the Labour Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (INE/GSEE). He is the author of a considerable number of studies and he has carried out research on issues of industrial relations - with emphasis in the flexibility of employment, the trade union movement, workers’ participation, employment policies and social dialogue - in Greece and Europe.

Catherine E. Michalopoulou (B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Athens, Diploma, M.Sc., Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics, London School of Economics) is Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Social Policy, Panteion University. She has designed and conducted social surveys while working at the National Centre of Social Research and in cooperation with the Labour Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (INE/GSEE). Her publications and research interests focus on issues of sampling practice, methodology and analysis of social sample surveys.

Iordanis Psimmenos, BA (Hons) Sociology and Social Policy, Newcastle University, PhD in Industrial Sociology, Durham University, Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He teaches Industrial Sociology, Organisation Theory, and Sociology of Migration. He has published widely on issues of Workers Participation, Migration and Social Exclusion. He is author of Globalisation and Employee Participation (1997, Ashgate); Migration from the Balkan States (1994, 2002, 2004, Papazisis); Work and Migration in Europe (1999, University of Athens); Domestic Work and the Culture of Social Welfare: the case of Albanian and Ukrainian Workers (with Dr Chr. Skamnakis, 2008, Papazisis); and various articles on the social exclusion of Albanian, Ukrainian and Polish domestic and construction workers.

Maria Korasidou was born in Drama in 1959. She studied Political Sciences and History at University of Social Sciences of Grenoble and University 7 of Paris. To date, she has written the following books: The miserables of Athens and their therapists. Poverty and philanthropy in the Greek Capital in the 19th century (1995), When Illness threatens. Surveillance and control of the Greek population’s health in the 19th century (2002). She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Policy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences where she teaches “History of Social Policy”.

Kanakis Leledakis studied at the National Technical University of Athens and at the London School of Economics where he completed his Ph.D in social theory. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Policy, Panteion University. His research focuses on the social construction of the subject and on the (re)production of the social through social action. His publications include Society and Psyche (Berg, 1995) and articles in international and Greek journals.

Christos Bagavos (B.Sc. in Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, D.E.S.S in Demography, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, D.E.A. and Ph.D. in Population Economics, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Policy. He was consultant in demography at the European Commission (1995-1998) and national expert at the European Observatory on the Social Situation, Demography and Family (2000-2004). His publications and research interests concern the socio-economic determinants of population changes, as well as the implications of demographic shift on labour market, education and social security.

Despina Papadopoulou was born in Thessaloniki in 1964. She studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1982-1986). She completed her postgraduate studies in the social sciences, with specialisation in Sociology, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (1988-1989). She received her doctorate degree in 1994 from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Policy of the Panteion University in the field of the Sociology of Change and Exclusion. She has published a lot of articles, edited collective volumes, participated in a monograph and published empirical pieces of research.

Georgia Petraki is Assistant Professor at the Panteion University of Political and Social Science, Department of Social Policy (Athens). She studied Administration Studies and Sociology in Athens and in Paris. She holds a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Work. She was associate researcher in INE-GSEE from 1993 to 1999. She has participated in research projects on work organization - technological changes - labour market. She has published three books on labour and several articles about segregation in labour market, work organisation, social structure. Her last book is entitled New Forms of Work Organization (2007). She coordinates the Greek participation in WORKS, Integrated Project. She is interested in understanding changes in social rapports, new forms of domination and exploitation but also new forms of resistance in the context of globalisation.

Spyros Sakellaropoulos completed his undergraduate studies in the Sociology Department of the Panteion University (1989), with postgraduate studies at the Paris VIII University D.E.A. (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies), 1992, and a Ph.D. in Political Sociology, 1995. He is Assistant Professor in the Social Policy Department of the Panteion University, specializing in the subject State and Political Theory. His research interests are centred on the theory of the State, the study of the Modern Greek and Cypriot societies and the theory of development of the capitalist mode of production. He has written numerous books and articles on his research interests in Greek, English and French.

Maria Stratigaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Policy teaching on gender, social policy and gender equality policies. She is Director of the Centre for Gender Studies. She coordinated European research projects at KEKMOKOP on gender and migration and women’s entrepreneurship. She was scientific responsible for the European research project EQUAPOL (FP5) on women’s friendly public policies in Europe (www.equapol.gr). She is currently scientific coordinator of the European research project GeMIC (FP7) on gender, migration and intercultural interaction in the South East Europe (www.gemic.eu). She is the author of books and articles on gender and social policy and on EU gender equality policies. She is a Member of the Board of the Greek League of Women’s Rights since 1999.

Maria Symeonaki is Assistant at the Department of Social Policy, Panteion University. She has studied Mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. In 1998 she completed her postgraduate studies leading to a Doctorate’s Degree in the field of Statistics and Operations Research (Title: “Theory of Perturbed Non Homogeneous Markov Systems). She has lectured in several Universities and participated in a number of scientific and developmental projects. Her scientific interests and published work concern mainly the study of population systems and their dynamic evolution in time.

Constantine Dimoulas is Lecturer in Social Administration and Evaluation of Social Programs at the Department of Social Policy, Panteion University. He has studied Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2003 he completed his postgraduate studies leading to Doctorate’s Degree in the field of the role of vocational training in the context of the modern welfare state. Since 1994, he is scientific consultant at the Labour Institute of GSEE (INE/GSEE). He has conducted many quantitative and qualitative researches on the subjects of training, certification of vocational qualifications, evaluation of: employment programs, social policy programs and policies for the integration of migrants in Greek society. Focusing his research interest on the above mentioned subjects he has published many articles and contributions in collective works.

Iraklis Mavridis was born in Athens. He studied sociology at Queens University, Canada and did his postgraduate studies (M.A., Ph.D.) in Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex, U.K. He has held various teaching posts including the Universities of Crete, Patras, Athens, Thessaly and the Aegean and he is currently Lecturer at the Department of Social Policy at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. His publicationς and his main scientific and research interests include social epistemology, social philosophy, contemporary social theory and the sociology of knowledge / theory of ideology.

Eleni Prokou is assistant professor in Education Policy at the Department of Social Policy of the Panteion University. She is also a tutor in Adult Education at the School of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University. She has completed her undergraduate studies in the Sciences of Education at the University of Athens and her postgraduate studies in Organisation, Planning and Management in Education at the University of Reading – UK. She holds a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Comparative Education from the Institute of Education of the University of London. Her research work and publications focus on the analysis and interpretation of higher education and lifelong education policies, with special emphasis on issues related to linking education and social policy.

Constantine Memos is a member of the technical and scientific support staff (ETEP) in Information Technology (IT) at the Department of Social Policy of the Panteion University since 2004. He graduated as an Engineer of Biomechanics Information from the Technological Educational Institution of West Macedonia and received his Master’s Degree in Finance Analysis for Cooperate Members from the University of Piraeus. He has lectured Stock Market Information as an assistant Professor in the Technological Educational Institution of West Macedonia. He has also worked as Finance Analyst in the international Finance Group and as an IT Technical Assistant in an IT company.