Ioannis Armakolas, PhD (Cantab), is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics of South East Europe at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia and Senior Research Fellow & Head of the South-East Europe Programme at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He’s a member of the Europe’s Futures Fellows alumni network of the Institute for Human Sciences-Vienna and the Erste Foundation as well as Editor of the ‘Political Trends and Dynamics’ the regional journal of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung-Dialogue Southeast Europe (FES SOE, Sarajevo), Editor of the book series ‘Southeast European and Black Sea Series’, published by Routledge, and Associate Editor of the academic journal ‘Southeast European and Black Sea Studies’ (Routledge journals, Taylor & Francis). He serves as a member of the Working Group for the formation of the Bilateral Youth Cooperation Office between Greece and North Macedonia, on the basis of the Prespa Agreement that solved the so-called ‘name dispute’.  

His previous affiliations include: Editor in Chief of ‘Southeast European and Black Sea Studies’ (Routledge journals, Taylor & Francis); ESRC Fellow at the Department of Politics, University of Oxford; Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford; Director of Research at the ʽUS-Greece Task Force: Transforming the Balkansʼ (joint project of the Hellenic Centre for European Studies and the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies); Region Head for South East Europe at Oxford Analytica; Tip OʼNeill Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at INCORE-Northern Ireland (Ulster University & United Nations University). Ioannis Armakolas has extensive experience as a consultant with USAID, DFID, FES and OSF projects in the Western Balkans and with companies, such as KPMG Consulting Inc. BearingPoint, and Coffey International.