Dr. Christos Giannopoulos

Executive Director
Christos Giannopoulos
Athens
(+30) 695 721 5933

Christos has been actively engaged with Harvard activities in Greece since 2003, and he became a full-time member of the CHS team in 2008. He is monitoring the entire operation of CHS Greece; sustaining and expanding the Center's collaborations with other units of the University in Cambridge and around the world; connecting its operation with that of CHS US; and supporting CHS and Harvard networks and synergies in the region. Since October 2023, he serves as Chair of the Global Offices Committee, which was initiated that year by the Vice Provost for International Affairs to support the collaboration, operation, and visibility of Harvard's global offices within the Harvard community.

He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Management from the University of Ioannina, Greece. Ηe is also a Harvard Summer School (HSS) graduate; and he spent the 2017 – 2018 academic year in the US as a Harvard/CHS post-doctoral Fellow in residence, studying the history and operation of Harvard’s international offices.

Among other positions in the public and private sector, he has been actively involved with Study in Greece (SiG), the country’s national agency for the internationalization of Greek Universities and their international collaborations, helping its establishment and expansion since 2017, serving as its strategic advisor until today, and also joining SiG's Advisory Board, which was established in 2025.