George Dikaios

Senior Research Fellow; Climate diplomacy, Sustainability; European institutions

Dr George Dikaios is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He is also a lecturer and a postdoctoral researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He is affiliated with the Department of Ports Management & Shipping and the Department of Political Science & Public Administration.

Moreover, he serves as a Senior Research Fellow of the UNESCO Chair on Climate Diplomacy and a Researcher at the Institute of European Integration and Policy (NKUA). He studied political science at NKUA (Greece) and Leiden University (Netherlands). His research interests revolve around policymaking and diplomacy, focusing on European and international policies for combating climate change, environmental degradation, and maritime transport. He has received scholarships, grants, and funding from European programmes (HORIZON Europe, Jean Monnet Actions), NKUA, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLLF) in Japan, UNICEF, etc. He is also an incoming Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University (2025-27). He is a member of several scientific associations (UACES, GPSG, etc.), often participates in international conferences, and his articles have been published in international and Greek academic journals. His first book is EU Climate Diplomacy towards the IMO and ICAO (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Recent publications

– Dikaios G (2024) EU Climate Diplomacy towards the IMO and ICAO (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan).

– Tsagkroni V & Dikaios G (eds., 2024) Special issue: Policy framing and branding in times of constant crisis. Media and Communication, 12(2) (open access).

– Dikaios G (2024) ‘Policy framing through policy branding: International Maritime Organization, climate change and Twitter/X’. Media and Communication, 12(2), article 7924 (open access).

– Dikaios G & Blavoukos S (2023) ‘Influencing the international transport regime complex: The EU’s climate action in ICAO and IMO’. Politics and Governance, 11(2): 62-71 (open access).