Giannis Drosos

Giannis Drosos (b. 1951) is Emeritus Professor at the Law School of Athens. A graduate of the German School of Athens, he studied Law in Athens, completed postgraduate studies in European Law in Brussels, and earned his PhD at the Law School of Thessaloniki under Aristovoulos Manesis. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School and the Center for European Studies (1992) and a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge (2015).

He taught Constitutional and European Law at the Law Schools of Thessaloniki and Athens and participated in academic programs in numerous countries. He is the author of several books, including The Legal Status of Political Parties in Greece (1982, 2024), Greek Constitutional Order and European Communities in International Relations (1987), Essay on Greek Constitutional Theory (1996), The Flight of Icarus: European Legal Responses Resulting from the Financial Crisis (2022), The Anatomy of an Economic Crime (2023), and Les Malheurs de la Vertu, or: Article 16 and the Misuse of Constitutional Discourse (2025).

Active in the anti-dictatorship student movement through the ranks of the KKE Interior and Rigas, and later through the radical Left and Center-Left, he served in senior positions in various ministries under PASOK governments, including Foreign Affairs, Economy, Defense, and Justice, participating in negotiations within the EEC, GATT, and other international frameworks.

He has also held various public positions, including Interim President of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) by FIFA decision (2016–2017), CEO of Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT, 2018–2019), Chair of the Board of Avgi newspaper (2020–2021), and Chair of the Central Electoral Committee for Syriza’s presidential elections (2023).

He is married to literary critic Elisabeth Kotzia, and they have one son.