Dimitrios V. Skiadas, LLB(Athens), MJur (Durham), PhD (Durham), is Associate Professor of European Governance at the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Macedonia. His areas of expertise include European Union Law, Public Law, Budgetary Law, and Project Management. He has taught courses at the University of Durham (UK), the Hellenic Air Force Academy, the University of Athens, the University of Central Greece and the National Centre for Public Administration. His publications include seven books, eleven contributions to collective volumes and books, and forty four articles in scientific journals, on subjects relating to the areas of his expertise, at national and international level. His professional record includes, at national level, the position of Secretary General for Commerce (Ministry of Development), the position of Special Secretary of European Union and Management of European Programmes (Ministry of Education), the position of Executive Secretary (Region of South Aegean), and, at EU level, memberships at the Education Committee of the Council of Ministers of the European Union, at the Governing Board of the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP), at the Monitoring Committee of various Operational Programmes, and at the Greek Monitoring Team on the Lisbon Strategy. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg (Austria). He speaks Greek, English, French, Italian. He is married with two children.