{"id":26715,"date":"2024-08-06T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/human_resources\/dimitris-kourkoulas\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T10:40:54","slug":"dimitris-kourkoulas","status":"publish","type":"human_resources","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/human_resources\/dimitris-kourkoulas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitris Kourkoulas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dimitris Kourkoulas was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, responsible for European Affairs and Economic Diplomacy, from June 2012 till January 2015. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During his mandate he was also responsible for the Greek Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the EU in the first semester of 2014.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">He has served as EU Ambassador in Lebanon (1997-2001)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the first ambassador of the EU after the end of the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">war, Bulgaria<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (2001-2006)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> during th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> period<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the negotiations for the accession of Bulgaria into the EU<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and Bosnia<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> &#038; <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Herzegovina (2006-2010)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the third largest EU Delegation in the world.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">From 2010-2012 he was Director in DG Enlargement of the European Commission, responsible for the EU strategy and policy of Enlargement<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in the Western Balkans, Turkey, and Iceland.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">From 1992 to 1997 he was Head of the European Commission\u2019s Political Relations Department for Central and Eastern European countries.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">He graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">continued his postgraduate studies at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne in Germany. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:200,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":26716,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"program":[25],"human_resource_role":[18],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/human_resources\/26715"}],"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:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=26715"},{"taxonomy":"human_resource_role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/human_resource_role?post=26715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}