Dimitrios Triantaphyllou

Co-convener and Co-rapporteur of the Commission on the Black Sea

Dr. Dimitrios Triantaphyllou is the co-convener and co-rapporteur of the Commission on the Black Sea. He was until recently Director General of the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS), a position he held since January 2006. He will be taking up a new assignment at Kadir Has University in mid-September. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He was previously Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of the Aegean in Rhodes (2006-2010); Special Advisor at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic (2004-2006); Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory of the European Institute at the LSE (2003-2004); Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies of the European Union, Paris (2001-2003); Research Fellow at the Institute for Security Studies of the Western European Union, Paris (1999-2001); Deputy Director of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens (1996-99); and Foreign Policy Advisor to a member of the European Parliament (1995). He has written and edited a number of books and articles pertaining to foreign policy and international relations. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, a member of the Greek-Turkish Forum and a member of the Governing Board of the European Studies Institute which is based in Moscow.