
Stefanos Gandolfo
Research Associate, ChinaStefanos Gandolfo is the Director of the Columbia Global Center in Athens.
Stefanos began his studies at Yale University, graduating cum laude in Economics and Philosophy. He pursued his Master’s degree at Peking University in Chinese Philosophy (taught in Chinese) where he received the Outstanding International Student Award and the Exceptional Thesis Award. During his time in China, he worked for the Sinica Podcast, the leading podcast on contemporary Chinese affairs. He completed his PhD at the University of Oxford where his dissertation – awarded with no corrections – on the organization of knowledge in pre-modern China received an honorable distinction by the Royal Asiatic Society.
Stefanos has published broadly on Chinese philosophy and culture and has extensive experience as a translator of contemporary Chinese thinkers and has taught Chinese philosophy, history and culture at Oxford and in Greece. He is currently co-editing a new series on Chinese culture published by Crete University Press.
In addition to Greek and English, he speaks Italian, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Japanese (high reading level) and has excellent knowledge of ancient Chinese.