{"id":2355,"date":"2024-05-02T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.bmwp.dev\/stelechosi\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T09:09:30","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/en\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-c415f3b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-86ebbf78\">\n\n<p><nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" id=\"breadcrumbs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/en\/\">Home<\/a> <span class=\"delimiter\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u276f<\/span> <span class=\"current\" aria-current=\"page\">Page<\/span><\/nav><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-58eaafe5\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-16e168cc\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-2f9a1015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-2f9a1015\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/stefano-gandolfo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stefano-gandolfo\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-632641a3\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-ee7d2e16 gb-headline-text\">Stefanos Gandolfo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-36df429f gb-headline-text\">Stefanos Gandolfo&nbsp;is the Director of the Columbia Global Center in Athens.<br>&nbsp;<br>Stefanos began his studies at Yale University, graduating&nbsp;<em>cum laude<\/em>&nbsp;in Economics and Philosophy. He pursued his Master\u2019s 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 \u2013 awarded with no corrections \u2013 on the organization of knowledge in pre-modern China received an honorable distinction by the Royal Asiatic Society.<br>&nbsp;<br>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.<br>&nbsp;<br>In addition to Greek and English, he speaks Italian, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Japanese (high reading level) and has excellent knowledge of ancient Chinese.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-dc386277\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-4d2b76e0\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-3eb8389b\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-3eb8389b\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/be51796c-afc4-4828-acf7-9df55bbae5f3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"be51796c-afc4-4828-acf7-9df55bbae5f3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/be51796c-afc4-4828-acf7-9df55bbae5f3.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/be51796c-afc4-4828-acf7-9df55bbae5f3-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/be51796c-afc4-4828-acf7-9df55bbae5f3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/be51796c-afc4-4828-acf7-9df55bbae5f3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/be51796c-afc4-4828-acf7-9df55bbae5f3-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/be51796c-afc4-4828-acf7-9df55bbae5f3-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-09449fda\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-df2223e3 gb-headline-text\">Stefanos Kordosis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7c55fcea gb-headline-text\">Dr Stefanos Kordosis serves as an assistant professor at the International Hellenic University, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics, specializing in the History of Central Eurasia from the Black Sea to China. He holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in International Relations and European Studies and a Master of Arts in International Relations and Strategic Studies from Panteion University, Athens. His Phd focuses on the relations between Byzantium and the Nomadic Empire of the T\u00fcrks through Byzantine and Chinese sources (submitted in 2007 at the University of the Aegean, Department of Mediterranean Studies). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His post doctorate research is on East-West contacts across Eurasia and the role of nomadic nations, Black Sea history and relations with Byzantium, past and present aspects of the trans-Eurasian communication and Great Power competition in Central Eurasia. In 2016-2017 he was awarded the Fulbright Greece fellowship for Greek Academics by which he visited the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania. Dr Stefanos Kordosis\u2019s research and teaching experience include the following: Tutor\/Student Consultant at Hellenic Open University, Foreign Expert at Xibei Daxue (\u897f\u5317\u5927\u5b66), Institute of Middle East Research (\u897f\u5317\u5927\u5b66\u4e2d\u4e1c\u7814\u7a76\u6240), Post-Doc. Researcher at the University of Ioannina and at National Hellenic Research Foundation, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Ioannina and at the International Hellenic University.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-164fe381\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ade2fec3\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-a2e5bae3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-a2e5bae3\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/efi-maramveliotaki.jpg\" alt=\"\u0388\u03c6\u03b7 \u039c\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03b2\u03b5\u03bb\u03b9\u03c9\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7\" title=\"efi-maramveliotaki\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3d753ac0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-8b43ac1d gb-headline-text\">Effie Meramveliotaki<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-55c097fe gb-headline-text\">Effie Meramveliotaki is an archaeologist and curator of the East Asian Collection at the Byzantine &amp; Christian Museum. She possesses extensive knowledge of Byzantine and Chinese art, as well as significant experience in organizing and implementing exhibitions at both national and international levels. She specializes in the study of Hellenistic Art in Central Asia and its indirect influences on the art of China and Japan. She has participated in international conferences in Japan and China and collaborates with Greek universities on topics related to Chinese culture.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bd47332a\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ee4ae524\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-f567d69b\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-f567d69b\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/anna-irene-baka.jpg\" alt=\"\u0386\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1 \u0395\u03b9\u03c1\u03ae\u03bd\u03b7 \u039c\u03c0\u03ac\u03ba\u03b1\" title=\"anna-irene-baka\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a1276581\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-49f83b97 gb-headline-text\">Anna Irene Baka<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7cbfd43d gb-headline-text\">Dr. Anna Irene Baka is a Marie Curie Fellow at Harvard\u2019s East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Ca&#8217; Foscari\u2019s Philosophy Department. She currently works on <em>RIGH\u03a4<\/em>\u2014an EU-funded Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie global project for the sustainable continuation of the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue. Specializing in comparative East-West philosophy, the history of legal ideas and interdisciplinary approaches to law, her educational journey\u2014supported by the Hellenic National Scholarship\u2014 took her from Athens to Brussels and Hong Kong. Beyond academia, Dr. Baka is a practicing jurist with a dedicated focus on human rights.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-52c75ce4\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-76207f2e\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-4a96cb7e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-4a96cb7e\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/papakosma.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"papakosma\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-67f943ce\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f6905a03 gb-headline-text\">Fenia Papakosma<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-088b7dfc gb-headline-text\">Fenia Papakosma studied Translation and Interpreting at the University of Salford in Manchester. She moved to China in 2001, where she studied Chinese at Hebei Normal University. She then worked at the Greek Consulate in Beijing as an interpreter, a position she held for four years.<br><br>In 2008, she completed her Master\u2019s degree in Chinese Studies at SOAS, University of London. In 2017, she received a scholarship to attend a specialized seminar on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at the Beijing International Chinese College.<br><br>In 2020, she founded Mandarin Books, a publishing house dedicated to producing and promoting Chinese language learning materials. She has authored two Chinese grammar books tailored for Greek-speaking learners, along with accompanying exercise books.<br><br>Since 2021, she has been teaching Chinese at the Institute of International Relations (IDIS).<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-8092be15\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-5a0fb423\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-3919ef1d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-3919ef1d\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/papasotiriou.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"papasotiriou\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-2e2eb6e8\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e074ac2c gb-headline-text\">Harry Papasotiriou<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7f2cbd19 gb-headline-text\">Harry Papasotiriou is a senior research associate of IDIS China Program. He graduated with honors from Oxford (School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) and obtained his doctorate from Stanford (Department of Political Science). He is a Professor of International Relations at Panteion University, and the president of the Scientific Board of the Institute of International Relations. He participates in the Scientific Council of the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute of Democracy. He is the first international relations scholar in Greece to research and teach China\u2019s international relations.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-05e95a8c\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-98f2dfc1\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-03a8020f\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2398\" height=\"2560\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-03a8020f\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sampson-Headshot-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sampson Headshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sampson-Headshot-scaled.jpg 2398w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sampson-Headshot-749x800.jpg 749w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sampson-Headshot-959x1024.jpg 959w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sampson-Headshot-768x820.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sampson-Headshot-1439x1536.jpg 1439w, https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Sampson-Headshot-1918x2048.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2398px) 100vw, 2398px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ccba8786\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f22f38ae gb-headline-text\">Marianna Sampson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-20b1f1b9 gb-headline-text\">Maria Anna Sampson is a graduate of Queen Mary University of London, where she earned a First Class LLB in Law. She also completed an MSc in China and Globalization at King\u2019s College London, specializing in interdisciplinary Chinese studies with a focus on international relations, economics, and environmental studies. Her postgraduate research focused on international arbitration practices within the China International Commercial Court. Her research interests include Sino-Greek relations, legal aspects of international trade, and the strategic role of the Belt and Road Initiative. She is also the author of <em>Mediterranean Silk Roads<\/em>, a blog dedicated to analyzing global business trends and their impact on Chinese business, as well as Sino-Greek relations. She is also an intermediate Mandarin speaker.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-4faa6d08\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-13370ab6\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-c4373631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-c4373631\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Georgios-Steiris.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Georgios-Steiris\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-d032b96a\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-57edebc0 gb-headline-text\">Georgios Steiris<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-8c1d4151 gb-headline-text\">Georgios Steiris is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He previously taught at the University of Peloponnese, the Hellenic Open University, and in Study Abroad Programs of the University of Connecticut and Boston University. He has been Visiting Professor at Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 University (Finland) and Visiting Fellow at Bogazici University (Turkey) and Macquarie University (Australia). He has served as Secretary-General of the Greek Philosophical Society (2015\u2013 2016). He was awarded the Golden Jubilee Medal \u201880 years of Al- Farabi Kazakh National University\u2019. Since 2011 he has been teaching Chinese Philosophy at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Athens. He has also published two articles on Chinese philosophy and has participated in three international academic conferences on Chinese philosophy. In addition, he supervises two PhD candidates researching in the field of Chinese philosophy. Recent works of his include <em>Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher <\/em>(2017), <em>The Oxford Handbook for Dionysius the Areopagite<\/em> (2022), and <em>Long Platonism: The Routes of Plato\u2019s Reception to the Italian Renaissance<\/em> (2025, forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7c4e01e6\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-6ac77e0f\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-e1b9e8f2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-e1b9e8f2\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/plamen-tonchev.jpg\" alt=\"\u03a0\u03bb\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u03a4\u03cc\u03bd\u03c4\u03c3\u03b5\u03c6\" title=\"plamen-tonchev\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-07f9abfa\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-428ba699 gb-headline-text\">Plamen Tonchev<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-6248fddc gb-headline-text\">Mr Plamen Tonchev has been Head of Asia Unit at the Institute of International Economic Relations (IIER), Greece, since 1998. Plamen is a founding member of the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC) and a contributor to its annual reports. In addition, he sits on the EU Chapter of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (EU CSCAP) committee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b8cbcdc9\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f249cbfe\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-8f5dff5f\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-8f5dff5f\" src=\"https:\/\/chinesestudies.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tsimonis.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tsimonis\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ebb3b9b0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7ad7d890 gb-headline-text\">Konstantinos Tsimonis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-a8492fd6 gb-headline-text\">Konstantinos Tsimonis first went to China in 2003 and studied there for five years in total. During his doctoral studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London he did his fieldwork in China as a visiting doctoral student at Peking University. Since 2015, he has been working at the Lau China Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/konstantinos-tsimonis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King\u2019s College London<\/a> and since 2022, he has been a member of the Institute of International Relations (IDIS), Panteion University. He is also the academic lead of the IDIS <a href=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China Program<\/a>. His research has been funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation, the British Academy and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, among other organisations.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u276f Page Stefanos Gandolfo Stefanos Gandolfo&nbsp;is the Director of the Columbia Global Center in Athens.&nbsp;Stefanos began his studies at Yale University, graduating&nbsp;cum laude&nbsp;in Economics and Philosophy. He pursued his Master\u2019s degree at Peking University in Chinese Philosophy (taught in Chinese) where he received the Outstanding International Student Award and the Exceptional Thesis Award. 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