{"id":2355,"date":"2024-05-02T17:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.bmwp.dev\/stelechosi\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:51:15","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinaprogram.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:\/\/chinaprogram.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-23220864\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-225f693e\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-55781a2b\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"780\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-55781a2b\" src=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/banach_photo_2022-09-23_short-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"banach_photo_2022-09-23_short (1)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/banach_photo_2022-09-23_short-1.jpg 781w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/banach_photo_2022-09-23_short-1-768x767.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e74f7ba6\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d9b37dc8 gb-headline-text\">Clark Banach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-8bbd09d6 gb-headline-text\">Clark Banach is a research fellow at IDIS China Program. He is also a Teaching Professor of Management at Canisius University and Program Director of the Aletheia Research Institution. He earned his PhD in Economics from Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, where his doctoral research examined Chinese property rights at ports and their impact on trade. His recent research\u00a0focuses on the effects of Chinese investments and trade dependencies, particularly in Europe and the Mediterranean.\u00a0<\/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:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/gofas.jpg\" alt=\"\u0391\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03ad\u03b1\u03c2 \u0393\u03ba\u03cc\u03c6\u03b1\u03c2\" title=\"gofas\"\/><\/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\">Andreas Gofas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7cbfd43d gb-headline-text\">Andreas Gofas is the scientific editor of IDIS China Program. Andreas is a Professor of International Relations at Panteion University of Athens, and Director of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi. He is also the academic representative of Greece at the High Council of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, and co-director of the Olympia Summer Academy.<\/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:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/electra.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"electra\"\/><\/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\">Electra Kaltsoni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-55c097fe gb-headline-text\">Electra Kaltsoni is a doctoral candidate at Panteion University. She studied Turkish and Modern Asian Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a Master\u2019s degree in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e1828000\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b5b69875\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-fa58c1e9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"459\" height=\"459\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-fa58c1e9\" src=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/486396563_3920627144858342_4284503527656812264_n-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"486396563_3920627144858342_4284503527656812264_n (1)\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-2fde0cff\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-4f0f6325 gb-headline-text\">Vasiliki Kanellopoulou<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-6bfbba95 gb-headline-text\">Vasiliki Kanellopoulou is an IDIS China Program research fellow. She is a political scientist specializing in Digital China, Chinese industrial policy, civil society, and the dynamics between central and local governments. She completed her master&#8217;s degree in Modern East Asia Studies at Goethe University in Germany and has lived and worked in several Asian countries, gaining experience in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, and the Maldives, where she served as a Supervisor and Policy Analyst for a multinational company operating in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Indian Subcontinent regions. Additionally, she has worked as a Networking Assistant in Ghana and Bahrain, focusing on economic relations in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-4fbf3aa7\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ac773b27\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-cef2ecc8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1875\" height=\"1500\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-cef2ecc8\" src=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/26824-62-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"26824-62 (1)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/26824-62-1.jpg 1875w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/26824-62-1-800x640.jpg 800w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/26824-62-1-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/26824-62-1-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/26824-62-1-1536x1229.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1875px) 100vw, 1875px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-22abff50\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-eb510986 gb-headline-text\">Yorgos Moraitis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d9628ce9 gb-headline-text\">Dr. Moraitis is a Ph.D. holder with a Marie Curie Fellowship, specialising in China&#8217;s early engagement with Western International law. He is currently working on his first monograph, &#8216;Robert Hart and Sino-Foreign Disputes in Qing China, 1863-1908: Negotiating Sovereignty&#8217; (to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2025). Dr. Moraitis has previously taught at the University of Belfast and is now a faculty member in the Political Science Department at the University of Crete.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-ae9c6b81\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e603d99e\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-236cfb74\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1610\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-236cfb74\" src=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5063.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_5063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5063.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5063-800x537.jpg 800w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5063-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5063-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5063-1536x1030.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_5063-2048x1374.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-c15545a0\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-010902c8 gb-headline-text\">Joanna Nestorides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f8ad8f3c gb-headline-text\">Joanna Nestorides is a research assistant in the China program. She studied Law (LLB, LLM, Esq.) and Political Science (BA), and her research engagement with China began at the College of Europe in Natolin (Adv. MA in European Interdisciplinary Studies), where she studied on a scholarship and served as Head of Transatlantic-China Relations, focusing on Sino-European relations through the lens of the European Union&#8217;s energy autonomy. She also served as an organizing member of European Guanxi. Professionally, in addition to being a lawyer, she works as a Public Affairs Officer in Brussels in the field of international trade with China.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-acc20c95\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-fb19b61e\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-f4698a10\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"366\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-f4698a10\" src=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1548704937284-.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1548704937284\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-d275be26\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-39635e06 gb-headline-text\">Alexandra Nikopoulou<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-5a32de53 gb-headline-text\">Alexandra Nikopoulou is  a project manager and researcher of the program. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Peloponnese. She holds a BA in International and European Studies from the University of Piraeus and a Masters in Mediterranean Studies from the University of Peloponnese. Since 2017, she has been a researcher at the Center for Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS).<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3c94d916\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-28ce708b\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-f4595f95\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"346\" height=\"377\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-f4595f95\" src=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Panoutsopoulos_HS.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Panoutsopoulos_HS\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-5d6cb4dd\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-6606166f gb-headline-text\">Tasos Panoutsopoulos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-058ba991 gb-headline-text\">Tasos Panoutsopoulos is a postdoctoral researcher in the program. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton (2022-2024). In 2022, he received his PhD from the Department of History at the University of Athens, with the support of the A.G. Leventis Foundation. He conducted archival research in Cyprus, in the USA, as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia (2018-2019), and in the UK, as a Visiting Research Student at LSE (2017).<\/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:\/\/chinaprogram.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 is the language instructor of IDIS China Program. She studied Translation and Interpretation at the University of Salford and lived and worked in Madrid and Paris. In 2001, she moved to China, where she lived, worked, and studied the language for six years. In 2008, she completed her studies with a Master\u2019s degree in Chinese Studies at SOAS, University of London. In 2017, she attended a seminar on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language at Beijing International Chinese College on a scholarship. In 2020, she founded Mandarin Books publishing house, from which her second book, \u201cChinese Grammar for All Levels,\u201d was released. Since 2009, she has been living and working in Athens.<\/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:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/papasotiriou.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"papasotiriou\"\/><\/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\">Harry Papasotiriou<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-8c1d4151 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-e2fdb348\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-0f498d3c\">\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-ee5984ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"678\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-ee5984ff\" src=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1707500548880.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1707500548880\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-cd51ba82\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-3c8bce06 gb-headline-text\">Dimitrios Stroikos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-effe080e gb-headline-text\">Dimitrios Stroikos is a postdoctoral researcher at the IDIS China Program. He is also Head of the Space Policy project at LSE IDEAS and a guest teacher at the Department of International Relations, LSE. He holds a PhD in International Relations from LSE, and an MSc in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford. He is the co-editor of the recently published book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/rising-power-limited-influence-9780192887115?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/rising-power-limited-influence-9780192887115?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rising Power, Limited Influence: The Politics of Chinese Investments in Europe and the Liberal International Order<\/a><\/em> (Oxford University Press).<\/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=\"1026\" height=\"1080\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-8f5dff5f\" src=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/unnamed-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"unnamed (1) (1)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/unnamed-1-1-1.jpg 1026w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/unnamed-1-1-1-760x800.jpg 760w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/unnamed-1-1-1-973x1024.jpg 973w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/unnamed-1-1-1-768x808.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chinaprogram.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/unnamed-1-1-1-1459x1536.jpg 1459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1026px) 100vw, 1026px\" \/><\/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&nbsp;Tsimonis&nbsp;is Assistant Professor in Chinese Politics and Academic Lead of the Institute of International Relations (IDIS) China Program at the Department of European and International Studies, Panteion University. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London and an affiliate of the Lau China Institute at King\u2019s College London where he previously served as a tenured faculty member. Konstantinos first went to Beijing in 2003 and spent a total of five years studying mandarin and working. During his doctoral studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), he conducted fieldwork in China as a visiting doctoral student at Peking University. Following the completion of his PhD, he held his first academic post at SOAS, and later joined King\u2019s where he worked for eleven years. Konstantinos is a member of the editorial board of the People&#8217;s Map of Global China and of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, co-editor the IDIS East Asia Series and a founding member of the Hellenic Association of Chinese Studies.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u276f Page Clark Banach Clark Banach is a research fellow at IDIS China Program. He is also a Teaching Professor of Management at Canisius University and Program Director of the Aletheia Research Institution. 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