The members of the Board of Directors of the AMKE “Komvos – Node: Networks of Global Hellenism” after the General Assembly on April 30, 2023, are as follows:
Angelos Chaniotis, President
Angelos Chaniotis is a Professor of Ancient History and Classical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
His research is dedicated to ancient inscriptions, historical memory, religion, theatricality in public life, emotion and society in the Hellenistic world, and the Roman East. He has been a professor at the Universities of New York, Heidelberg, and Oxford and is a visiting professor at Northeastern Normal University in China.
He served as Vice-Rector at the University of Heidelberg and has been a member of various councils, including the Comitato Nazionale dei Garanti per la Ricerca in Italy and the Research Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
He is currently a member of the National Authority for Higher Education in Greece. He is an external member of the Academies of Athens, Heidelberg, and Finland, a member of the European Academy, and an honorary doctor of several universities.
He has received numerous awards, including the Knight Commander of the Order of the Phoenix from the Hellenic Republic.
Michael Haliassos, Vice-President
Michael Haliassos holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt.
He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), founding director of the CEPR pan-European network on Household Finance, Research Professor, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability. He has been an advisor to the European Central Bank on economics and household consumption since the start of the relevant research in 2006 and is a research partner of the NETSPAR network.
His research interests focus on macroeconomics and finance, with an emphasis on household behavior regarding assets and loans. He has served as Chair of the Department and Deputy Dean of the Schools of Economics and Business Administration at Goethe University and the University of Cyprus, as well as a member of the Senate and the Council of the University of Cyprus, the National Council for Research and Technology of Greece (ESET), and the Advisory Group of ESMA (Brussels).
Konstantinos Drosatos, Secretary General
Konstantinos Drosatos holds the “Ohio Eminent Scholar” Chair and is a Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
He is a visiting professor at the UCLA Center for Systems Biomedicine and a visiting professor at the University of Crete Medical School (Greece). He has been awarded the distinction of Outstanding New Investigator by the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Council. He is a co-founder and has served as president of the World Hellenic Biomedical Organization in the USA and the Hellenic Bioscientists Association of the USA. He is Vice President of the Institute for the Advancement of Research and Education in Arts, Sciences, and Technology (ARISTEiA) and the elected president of the Mid-Career Researchers Committee of the American branch of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR-NAS).
He has founded international educational programs for undergraduate and graduate students that focus on interdisciplinary approaches to addressing health issues and the environmental crisis.
Harris Antoniou, Treasurer
Harris Antoniou is the founder and CEO of Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd, of which the Latsco Family Office is a major shareholder. He is also the Managing Director of Neptune International AG, focusing on transformative investments and advice in the fields of Real Assets, Technology and Financial Services. He is an investor and member of the board of Natech SA Financial Services. He is a former CEO of Amsterdam Trade Bank, and he has held management positions at leading institutions for the last 25 years, having served as President & CEO at AMCI Group with investments in raw materials, goods and shipping and as the Managing Director, Energy, Commodities & Transportation at ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Recently, as a partner and board member of Advent Technologies Inc., he contributed to the raising of private equities and the listing of the company on the Nasdaq. He was one of the first signatories of the Poseidon Principles, a supporter of United World Colleges in the Netherlands, and member of Abundance 360.
Anna Grimani
She is a journalist. Born in Athens, she studied journalism in Paris. She began her career at the newspaper TA NEA, and in the magazine sector, working with ENA, EIKONES, and other publications.
Her column PATRIDOGNOSIA & GREEKS ABROAD in the K Magazine of KATHIMERINI SUNDAY (2008-2017) highlighted over 450 distinguished Greek scientists excelling in academic institutions and research centers abroad. She also conducted prominent interviews with distinguished academic personalities, featured in K Magazine, GK (Kathimerini), and Limited Edition (Kathimerini/Eurobank).
Her publication, PATRIDOGNOSIA – 100 PERSONALITIES SEARCHING FOR HELLENISM (published by GOVOSTI), with paintings by Yiannis Psychopaidis and sponsored by N.J.V. ATHENS PLAZA, includes 100 interviews with distinguished Greeks from abroad and personalities of international academic renown. This book highlights the enduring significance of these articles.
She served as the editor-in-chief and presenter of the show REMARKABLE GREEKS (broadcasted on state television ET1), an hour-long program featuring portraits of top international Greek scientists, filmed across Europe and the U.S., and presented for the first time on Greek television.
As president (2015-2018) of a humanitarian organization for impoverished children in Greece with congenital heart disease, she collaborated with prominent figures in the arts, organizing major events at the Megaron Concert Hall and the Herodes Atticus Theatre. Under her voluntary leadership, 106 children with heart conditions were supported.
She authored the biography Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler, 600 Pencils and 10 Poems (2021, published by GOVOSTI).
She is a member of the Honorary Mentors Committee of the non-profit organization HOPEgenesis, founded by Dr. Stefanos Handakas, president of MITERA.
She writes for the Greek edition of Huffington Post and the business magazine WOMEN IN BUSINESS & SCIENCE.
She also served as the senior editor of the official historical documentary 2,500 Light Years, produced by the Honorary Deanery for the 2020 anniversary year of Thermopylae-Salamis (Marianne V. Vardinogianni Foundation).
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Chryssa Kouveliotou is a Greek astrophysicist. She is a professor at George Washington University and an Emeritus researcher in high-energy astrophysics at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Her numerous contributions to the fields of astronomy and astrophysics have expanded the scientific understanding of transient phenomena in the Milky Way and the entire universe. In addition to identifying the unique properties of extremely energetic emissions from gamma-ray bursts — the brightest and most powerful cosmic events ever recorded — Kouveliotou was part of the team that uncovered the extragalactic nature of these sources. Her team also made the first confirmed detection of extremely dense neutron stars known as magnetars — the remnants of stars left after a supernova.
In 2021, she was honored with the Shaw International Astronomy Prize.
George Nounesis
George Nounesis is the Director and Chairman of the Board of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”. Dr. Nounesis studied Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He earned his Ph.D. from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota. He completed a three-year postdoctoral training at the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Executive Education Program on “Innovation for Economic Development” at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is currently the Director of the Laboratory of Biomolecular Physics at “Demokritos”. Before returning to Greece, he held research positions at the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering and the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal of the CNRS and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux I.
Nikos Kyrpides
Nikos Kyrpides is a bioscientist who studies the origin of life, information processing, bioinformatics, microbiology, metagenomics, and microbiome science.
He is a researcher at the Berkeley National Laboratory, head of the Prokaryotic Organisms Superprogram, and leads the Microbiome Data Science program at the Department of Energy’s Genomics Institute. He led the development of pioneering data management systems in microbial genomics and metagenomics. These include data management systems and project oversight systems related to genomes, such as the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD), as well as comparative genomics systems like ERGO and Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG).
Nikos Konstantaras
Nikos Konstantaras (Konstantaras-Kyprianos Nikolaos-Ioannis) is a columnist for the newspaper Kathimerini, where he served as the editorial director from 2004 to 2017.
He was also the first editor of the English edition of Kathimerini from 1998 to 2017. He was a regular columnist-contributor to the New York Times International Edition and has worked with many international newspapers. From 1989 to 1997, he was a correspondent for the Associated Press in Athens, covering major events in the wider region.
He was born in South Africa and studied Ancient Greek and English Philology (B.A., M.A.) at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg).
Maria Mavroudi
Maria Mavroudi is a professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been honored with the MacArthur Fellowship. Her research focuses on the reception, adaptation, and borrowing of ancient traditions between Byzantium and Islam, Byzantine intellectual history, the history of Byzantine sciences, and the survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453.
Vicky Pryce
Vicky Pryce is a British economist of Greek descent and a former Joint Head of the Economic Service of the UK Government.
She served as an economist and later as Chief Economist at Williams & Glyn’s Bank (now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland), corporate economist at Exxon Europe, and Chief Economist at Peat Marwick McLintock and KPMG. She also worked for the consulting firm London Economics and is currently a member of the advisory board of OMFIF, where she regularly participates in meetings related to the financial and monetary system.
Additionally, she is a visiting professor at Birmingham City University and King’s College London, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK, and a member of other academic organizations.
Alternate members of the Board of Directors
Alexander Nehamas
Alexander Nehamas is a philosopher, emeritus professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, and emeritus professor of the Humanities at the Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Chair at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 to 2021. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society since 2016, and a member of the Academy of Athens since 2018. His research focuses on ancient Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and literary theory.
Konstantinos Kostis
Kostas Kostis is a professor of Economic and Social History at the Department of Economics at the University of Athens. He studied Economics at the University of Athens and Economic History at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he completed his doctoral thesis in 1985. In 1990, he was awarded the Nikos Svoronos Prize for Young Historians by the Institute of Technology and Research of the University of Crete. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the University of Athens, and since 1999, he has worked as a Management Consultant at Alpha Bank. From 2006 to 2009, he held the Chair of Modern and Contemporary Greek Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His published works include: The Wealth of Greece: The Greek Economy in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Athens, 2019) State and Business in Greece: The History of Aluminium of Greece (Athens, 2013) The Spoiled Children of History: The Formation of the Greek State, 18th-21st Century (Athens, 2013, English edition: London-New York, 2018) The History of the National Bank of Greece (1914-1940) (Athens, 2003) In the Time of the Plague: Images from the Societies of the Greek Peninsula, 14th-19th Century (Heraklion, 1995).
