Stelios Perrakis is Professor Emeritus of International and European Institutions at Panteion University, where he has served as Deputy Rector of International Relations and European Programmes (2013-2015).
Professor of International Law and Dean, Law School at the Neapolis University of Pafos, Cyprus (September 2020-August 2022).
Director of the “Georgios Tenekides” International Law Center, Neapolis University of Pafos.
He has taught International and European Law at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace (1978-1993), at the University of Macedonia, and at the Department of International, European, and Area Studies of Panteion University (1994-2015).
Former Ambassador – Permanent Representative of Greece to the Council of Europe (2015-2019).
Coordinator of the Hellenic MFA Task Force for the Preparation of the Greek Chairmanship to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers (May-November 2020).
First Vice President of the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations; he has served as President of HeSILIR multiple times.
Secretary General for European Affairs of the Hellenic MFA (February 1996-May 2000).
He founded and directed the European Center for the Training on and Dissemination of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Panteion University (2005-2019).
Holder of a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam “Democracy and Human Rights in the EU” and of the UNESCO Chair “Democracy, Peace and Human Rights”.
Visiting Professor and Lecturer at Universities and other academic institutions abroad, as well as at the Higher Military Academies, of the Hellenic Police, and the Diplomatic Academy of the Hellenic MFA.
On 2017, he gave a Special Course (Cours Spécial) at the Academy of International Law in The Hague: La protection internationale au profit des personnes vulnérables en droit international des droits de l’homme, Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International de la Haye, Tome 420, Boston, Leiden, Brill|Niijhoff Publications, in 2021.
Delegate and Representative of Greece in International Organizations and Conferences (UN, EU et al.) and Agent in various cases before the CJEC/CJEU (among others the case Commission v. Greece on the countermeasures against the fYROM, 2014), as well as the International Court of Justice (Jurisdictional Immunities of the State, Germany v. Italy, Greece intervening, 2011).
Member of several International Organs and Institutions, such as the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) of the Council of Europe (2003-2015), International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (2002-2021), Commission of Inquiry on Lebanon of the UN Human Rights Council (September-November 2006), Administrative Board EU Fundamental Rights Agency (2012-2015).
Ad hoc Judge of the European Court of Human Rights and Arbitrator of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.
Former Member of the Scientific Council of the Hellenic MFA.
Since 2004, he organizes the Nafplion International Law Conference in Nafplion, Greece.
Author and editor of 350 publications (books, articles, comments etc.) on International Law, European Law, Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, International Organizations and Hellenic Foreign Policy, published in Greece and abroad.
Director of the Cahiers de Droit International et de Politique Internationale, the first electronic journal in the field of International Law and International Relations
