Originally from Crete, George Prevelakis is a graduate of Athens College and the National Technical University of Athens. He served as Professor at the Sorbonne (Paris 1). He specialises in the geopolitics of Europe, the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, diaspora studies and spatial planning.

He has held teaching and research positions in Paris, Baltimore, Boston and London. From 2003 to 2005, he held the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at the Fletcher School. He served as Greece’s Ambassador to the OECD from 2013 to 2015 and from 2019 to 2023.

His selected books include Who Are We? The Geopolitics of Greek Identity (Athens, 2019); The Wooden Walls: The Geopolitics of Greek Networks (Athens, 2020); At the OECD: Geopolitical Theory and Diplomatic Practice (Athens, 2024); and Qui sont les Grecs? Une identité en crise (CNRS Éditions, 2017, in French). The English titles are translations of the Greek originals.

He is a co-founder of the Applied Franco-Hellenic Dialogues, through which he has organised Franco-Hellenic geopolitical conferences in Greece and France.