Dr George Dikaios is a lecturer at the Department of Ports Management & Shipping and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science & Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the UNESCO Chair on Climate Diplomacy (NKUA) and the Hellenic Foundation of European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He is an incoming Marie Curie Fellow (principal investigator) at Leiden University (2025-27), where he will research the climatization processes of maritime transport in the EU. He has studied political science at NKUA (Greece) and Leiden University (The Netherlands) and received scholarships, grants, and funding from European programs (HORIZON Europe, Jean Monnet Actions), NKUA, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLLF) in Japan, UNICEF, etc. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the newly established academic journal 'Ocean and Society' and a member of the Executive Board of the Greek Politics Specialist Group of the UK Political Science Association. He acts regularly as an external counselor in research and innovation projects on climate and shipping. Moreover, he has been selected as a Future Think Tank Leader at NEXT-Empowering Future Leaders (ISPI, OECD & Bocconi University, 2024-26) and a Young Ocean Leader at the 9th Our Ocean Conference (2024). His work and research interests revolve around policymaking in climate change, international transport and crises, shipping and technological policies, the EU and international organizations. His first book is 'EU Climate Diplomacy towards the IMO and ICAO' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
