{"id":26710,"date":"2024-08-06T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/human_resources\/axel-sotiris-valnten\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T10:40:53","slug":"axel-sotiris-valnten","status":"publish","type":"human_resources","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/human_resources\/axel-sotiris-valnten\/","title":{"rendered":"Axel Sotiris Wallden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Axel Sotiris Walld\u00e9n <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">born <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Athens in 1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">949<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. He<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">studied economics in Sweden <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(Lund and Uppsala) <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and France and was awarded <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> PhD from the University of Athens. From 1996 to 2014 he <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an official at<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the European Commission<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, mostly dealing with EU enlargement<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and neighbourhood polic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">H<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e ha<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> served <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as a visiting professor at the Panteion University, Athens<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(1990-92), <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as secretary-general at the Hellenic Ministry of National Economy<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(1989-90) <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as an adviser at the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">same Ministry (1983-85) and at the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ministry<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Foreign <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Affairs (2000-03)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. He<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">presently teaches<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> at the Institut d\u2019Etudes europ\u00e9ennes of the Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Walld\u00e9n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> is the author of <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a large number of books and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">scientific <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">articles<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, mostly<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Balkan issues, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">EU enlargement<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Greek foreign polic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">y<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He is a regular contributor of articles in the press and in websites.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"program":[],"human_resource_role":[97],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/human_resources\/26710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/human_resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/human_resources"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=26710"},{"taxonomy":"human_resource_role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/human_resource_role?post=26710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}