Dr Stelios Alifantis earned his PhD in International Relations with distinction at Panteion University for Social & Political Studies (1987). In 2000-2001 he undertook post-doctoral sabbatical research on “Low Intensity Crisis Management” as Visiting Senior Research Associate in London and Aberdeen Universities. He is the author of six books and over seventy publications.
Following academic career, he has taught in the fields of International Relations, Greek Foreign & Security Policy, Crisis Management, and Area Studies at Panteion University (1988-2004), at University of the Aegean and Piraeus University (2004-2007), as well as at other Greek institutions as visiting Professor for several years, like the Naval Academy (SND), the Naval War College (NSP), the Hellenic National Defence College (HNDC), the Strategic Intelligence School (SPP), National Center of Public Administration.
His research interests include International Relations, Crisis Management, Conflict Analysis, International Politics History, International Energy Relations, Area Studies and “Serious Games” & Simulations, where he designed and run a series of simulation and “serious gaming” seminars and applications in academic institutions. Since 2014 he is engaged in historical research on pre-revolutionary J. Capodistrias, 1800-1821, presented the research findings in three academic conferences and published two books on this subject.
He also served as Special Advisor to the Minister for Foreign & Security Policy and also as the Scientific Committee Member and Head of Minister’s Crisis Management Committee (2000-2001) at the Ministry for Defense (1997-2001) and as Special Advisor to the Minister for International Energy Relations at the Ministry for Development (2001-2004).
Since 2004, he joined the Civil Service in Energy sector (currently Ministry for Environment & Energy) as Head of Department of “International Relations Dept” (2009-2014) and later of “Energy Planning Dept” (2015-today) at the Ministry of Environment & Energy. In the period 2009-2014 he was a Member of the Board of Directors of Hellenic National Natural Gas System (DESFA) S.A. He is currently National Contact Point / Clean Energy Transition for Life.
He participated in various international and Greek academic bodies.
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