Giorgos Stathakis

Giorgos Stathakis holds an economics degree from the University of Athens (1976) and a Master's (1978) and PhD (1983) in economics from Newcastle University. He held research posts at the Mediterranean Studies Foundation and the Computer Technology Institute in Patras, and was a visiting scholar at Queens College, City University of New York, and at Harvard University's Center for European Studies. From 1988 he taught at the University of Crete, becoming full professor of political economy in 1997 and served as a Vice-Rector until 2012.

He was elected to the Hellenic Parliament for Chania in 2012, and was Greece's Minister of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism in 2015 before serving as Minister of Environment and Energy from 2016 to 2019.

He gave the keynote at Mare Forum Greece 2017 and was a panellist at the 18th Mare Forum Greece in 2018.