Ioannis Papageorgiou is professor in the School of Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki. His research areas are European integration, comparative political systems, international
migration and refugee law.

He is a lawyer and political scientist (degree is law from the University of Athens, MA in comparative
politics from the University of Paris I and MA in development cooperation from the Université Libre
de Bruxelles). His PhD (2001) from the ULB dealt with regional integration in Central America.

During the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2012, he has acted as the Chair of the Asylum
Working Party in the Council of Ministers of the EU. M. Papageorgiou has also worked as an
independent expert in several international projects on migration and asylum since 2003 and was the
Director of the Greek Asylum Service between 2011-2.

Between 2016-2018 he worked in the Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs
of the European Parliament in Brussels, dealing with the institutional aspects of Brexit and on issues
of civil liberties. His academic research covers issues of European political integration, immigration
policy and international humanitarian and refugee law.

He holds the Chair Jean Monnet on “EU Horizons Unveiled: History, Rights and the External Dynamics
of the European integration”. In 2021 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar with the Georgetown Law
University (Washington, DC). Since 2022, he is the Head of the School.