Elias Dinas is the holder of the Swiss Chair in Federalism, Democracy and International Governance at the European University Institute – while on leave from the University of Oxford, where he is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics and a Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the European University Institute (2010) and his research interests include the dynamics of political socialization, the downstream effects of institutional interventions and the legacy of authoritarian rule on the ideological predispositions of citizens in new democracies. He has also a keen interest in research methodology. His work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and mentioned in The Economist, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Greek parliament.
Vicky Fouka is an assistant professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Center for International Development, the Europe Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute, the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab and an external research fellow at the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). She holds a PhD in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University. Her research interests include the dynamics of immigrant assimilation, the effects of integration policies on immigrant outcomes and the legacy of historical conflict on out-group prejudice. Her work combines formal theory and techniques for causal inference in the analysis of historical and contemporary data and has been funded by the Hellman Fellows fund and the Russell Sage Foundation.
George Siakas (phD in Comparative policy) holds a Master in International Relations and a bachelor in Accounting and Finance and. He joined PORU in 2013 and from 2015 he is serving as the Research Director. Previously, from 2007 to 2013 he was employed as a business consultant. He was a member of the Ministry of Competitiveness evaluation registry and has participated in the design and implementation of European and other developmental projects.
Iordanis Lazoudis is a graduate of the New York Baruch College and holds an MBA from NY Institute of Technology. Since 1999, he has been working as IT consultant in New York, and from 2000 to 2003 as a developer in Goldman Sachs. In 2004, he’s back to Greece and since he has developed significant activity as an IT expert, supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in the development of cloud services and portfolio management.