Biography
Andreas Stergiou is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Thessaly, Greece, and a Teaching Fellow at the Open University of Greece. He has previously been Visiting Research Fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University, Israel, at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA University).Marika Karagianni is a legal and political expert, and previously worked as Special Advisor on Bilateral and Multilateral Energy Relations to the Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic. She is currently a permanent expert at the Hellenic Government on energy security, and holds a PhD on the “Legal Aspects of Offshore Hydrocarbons’ Development in the Caspian Sea” from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. She is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Peloponnese.