Speaker Bio

George Pagoulatos is the Ambassador of Greece to the OECD, Chair of the OECD Friends of South East Europe Group. Professor of European Politics and Economy at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) (on leave) and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Pagoulatos has served as Director General of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) (2019-23), advisor on European affairs to the President of the Hellenic Republic (2020-23), and senior advisor to the PM and director of strategy at the PM Office under Greece’s two non-political prime ministers (2011-12). He is Council member of the European Council of Foreign Relations (ECFR) and was a member of the Governing Board of the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) (2015-20), the High Council of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (2010-13), and President of ECSA-Greece (2013-14). Author of several books and many articles, he has been a regular columnist in the Sunday edition of the main Greek centrist newspaper Kathimerini (2007-23). Pagoulatos holds a Law degree from the University of Athens, M.Sc. and D.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He was a delegate for Greece in the Conference on the Future of Europe (2021-22) and a member of the Prime Minister’s High-Level Advisory Committee for Artificial Intelligence (AI) (2024-25).