ANTONIA ZERVAKI

Antonia Zervaki is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has graduated from the School of Philosophy of Athens University in 1995; she holds an MA in European Studies (University of Exeter/Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Rennes) (1996) and an MA in European Organisation and Diplomacy (Athens School of Law, Economics and Political Science) (1998). In 2000 she became a research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, where she conducted research on the challenges and prospects of EU – Council of Europe relations. Ιn 2006, she was awarded a PhD in international relations/organisation (title: Political Culture and the conduct of Greek foreign policy within the framework of international organizations) (Athens School of Law, Economics and Political Science).

She has worked as a researcher/coordinator in numerous European projects from 1997 until 2016 in the field of cultural, environmental and maritime governance. In 2006 she worked as a researcher at the Hellenic Centre for European Studies on EU maritime policy and EU enlargement. In 2007 she was appointed Special Advisor on EU maritime policy at the Academic Centre of Analysis and Planning of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2007-2009). During her tenure at the Ministry she was in charge of EU maritime governance issues and participated as a member of the Greek delegation to the European Conference on the Integrated Maritime Policy of the EU (Portoroz 2008), the European Maritime Day (Rome 2009), the 25th General Assembly of the UNESCO Inter-Governmental Oceanographic Commission (Paris 2009) and several other experts and high officials’ meetings.

Since 2007 she has been a visiting lecturer in several universities and research institutions in Greece, including the Diplomatic Academy of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2017 she is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a member of the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations, the Academic Council on the United Nations System, the International Political Science Association, the European Political Science Association and member of the Board of the Hellenic National Committee of the Blue Shield.

She is the author of two monographs and several articles/chapters on international relations theory, international and European organization and governance, international cultural policies and maritime governance.