AHI Virtual Speaker Forum Commemorates Greece's OXI Day on October 28

The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) Virtual Speaker Forum continues with a commemoration of OXI Day on Thursday, October 28, 12 PM EDT, via Zoom, featuring Dr. Constantine Arvanitopoulos, Professor and Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and European Studies Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. AHI President Nick Larigakis will host the event on the 81st anniversary of OXI Day.

Register online for the event: https://www.ahiworld.org/oxiday21.

After registration, you will receive a confirmation email to join the webinar. You may ask questions through the Q&A feature on Zoom. If you cannot attend the event, you can view it on AHI’s YouTube channel.

Arvanitopoulos is a former Minister of Education, and Professor of International Relations at the Department of International and European Studies at Panteion University, Athens. He is a graduate of Panteion University and holds an MA and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC.

He has been Lecturer on International Relations and Comparative Politics at the School of International Service at the American University (1987-89), Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (1990-92), and Assistant Professor of Government and European Politics at the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University (1992-95). He was Chair of the Department of International and European Studies at Panteion University from 2006 to 2010. He was a Member of the High Council of the European University Institute, Florence, as representative of Greece, for five years (2004-2009).

His latest appointments include the following: Member of the Greek Parliament with New Democracy. He served as Minister of Education from June 2012 until June 2014. During his tenure as Minister of Education, he ran the Presidency of the European Council (level of Ministers of Education) for six months (1/1/2014 – 31/6/2014) and was in close cooperation with the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, and Youth, for the support of Erasmus+ Initiatives for policy innovation. On November 11, 2011, he was appointed Alternate Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning, and Religion in the coalition Government of Lucas Papademos. He was Director of the Political Office of the President of New Democracy from 2009-2011.

He was the Director-General of the Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy from 2000 to 2010. He has also served as Representative of the New Democracy Party (ND) to the National Council of Foreign Policy, Member of the Academic Council of the Centre for European Studies (CES), and Member of the Board of Directors of UNESCO-Greece. He was the spokesperson for the New Democracy Party during the national elections of September 2007.

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