George S.-P. Katrougalos |
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Professor
of Public Law, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece.
He was born
in Athens in 1963. He has obtained his Law School Degree from Athens University
(1985) and his master (D.E.A -1986-) and Doctorate in Public Law from the
University Paris I-Sorbonne (1990). His thesis (summa cum laude) had as theme
"The legitimation crisis of the Administration. The case of Greece"
(Paris I-Sorbonne, Paris, 1990, Sakkoulas Brs. Publishers, 1994, Athens).
He has been
Emil Noel Fellow and Senior Emile Noel at New York University (2008 and 2012,
respectively). In 1994-1995 he has been visiting professor at Roskilde
University, Denmark, under a fellowship of the Danish Research Academy. He has
lectured as invited speaker at Oxford University, Columbia, Humboldt, Tilburg
University, the London School of Economics, New Delhi Law School and in many
Greek Universities.
He has worked on research projects of the Council
of Europe, the American Bar Association (CEELI Project), the European Foundation for the
Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, the French National Center of Research (C.N.R.S.), the Institute of Greek
Constitutional History and Constitutional Law, and the University Research Center of Social Security, Health and Assistance of the Law
School of Athens (deputy member of its council of administration 1995-1996). He
has worked, as international expert, in various projects of institutional
building in Uzbekistan (1997, 2005), North Macedonia (2000), Slovakia (2004),
Syria (2003), Armenia (2004). In 1998 and 1999 he has offered legal consulting to the
Albanian Parliament for the drafting of the new Albanian Constitution and in
2000 was Coordinator of the Stability Pact Programme “Institutional Support to
the countries of Southern Europe” of the Greek Ministry of Foreign
Affairs-CECL. He has worked as special
legal advisor to the Greek Minister of Education (1994, 1997-2002). He has
represented Greece as legal advisor to the 3d Committee of the General Assembly
of the United Nations (2000-2003) and was member of the group of experts of the
Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the drafting of the Convention on the
Draft Constitution of the European Union (2003-2004).
He has been the first President and CEO of
«Vocational Training S.A» (2002-2003), a public organisation of the Greek
Ministry of Labour and Social Security, and member of the Management Board of
the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP), the EU agency specialized in vocational training policy.
He has
served as member of the European Parliament (2014-2015), Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Greece (2019), State Minister for European Affairs (2016-2019),
Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity (2015-2016) and State Minister for
Administrative Reforms (2015), member of
the Greek Parliament (2015-2023), President of the Unified European Left at the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE, 2021-2023) and President
of the Sub-Committee on the Arab World and the Middle East of PACE (2020-2022).
He is the
writer of several books and over 130 articles in the
legal press of Greece, France, Germany, India, Russia, Mexico and the USA. He
is also editor (with Prof. D. Tsatsos) of the
publication of the Albanian Constitution in Greek. Among his monographs are the
following: “Southern European Welfare States” (with G. Lazaridis), Palgrave/Macmillan,
2003, "The social state in post-modern era", A. Sakkoulas,
Athens, 1998, "Constitution, Law and Rights in the Welfare State ... and
beyond", first edition Forlaget Samfundsokonomi & Plaenlaegning,
Roskilde, 1995, second edition A. Sakkoulas, Athens,
1998, "The Right to live the and the Right to die", Athens, Ed. Ant.
N. Sakkoulas, 1993. He has also published many
articles in Greek, American and European legal journals, among which: Rights in
the Welfare State, Jahrbuch des oeffentlichen
Rechts, 1995, The implementation of social rights in
Europe, Columbia Journal of European Law, Summer 1996, The rights of
foreigners in Europe, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues 5, 1995, The
principle of legitimate expectations, Review of the Administrative Judges, Dioikhtikh Dikh, 4/1993. Press here for indicative publications.
He has been
member of the Board of KETHEA, research fellow and member of the Executive
Committee of the Centre of European
Constitutional Law, Foundation Th. and D. Tsatsos,
founding member and member of the Board and pro bono legal advisor of the Greek
National Committee of UNICEF.