The Board

Founder and Honorary President Dimitris T. Tsatsos (1933-2010) Dimitris T. Tsatsos was born in Athens in 1933. He studied law in Athens and obtained his PhD in 1960. He was trustee in the Law School of the University of Heidelberg from 1960 to 1969. From 1964 to 1965 he worked as an associate in the field of Comparative and International Law at the Max-Planck Institute. He was elected Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Athens in 1968. The same year he became Assistant Professor of Constitutional, Administrative and Comparative Law in University of Bonn. In 1969 he became professor of law in the Law School of the University of Thessaloniki. The political regime of the time refused to appoint him and detained him as a political prisoner from March to September 1973. In 1974 he served as Deputy Minister of Higher Education in the Government of National Unity, where he oversaw the removal of all pro-junta professors from Universities and drafted the first framework legislation. He was appointed General Minority Rapporteur for the new Constitution in the fifth Revised Parliament (1974-1975). In 1995 he received the “European Culture Award” for his contribution to the institutional reform of Europe. And in 2002 he received the “Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit” of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1995 to 1999 he served as a member of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the Inter-institutional Conference. In 2001 he was unanimously proclaimed Doctor honoris causa Professor at the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Professorships: 1971 Bonne, 1975 Thessaloniki, 1979 Hagen, 2003 Universität of Düsseldorf. Honorary president of the Centre for European Constitutional Law -“Themistokles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation”, co-director of the “Institute for European Constitutional Sciences” of the University of Hagen, President of the Scientific Council of the “Political Parties Law Institute” in Düsseldorf and if the “Local self-governance Institute” in Athens. CURRICULUM VITAE President Professor Xenophon I. Contiades Xenophon Contiades is Professor of Public Law, Dean of the School for Social Sciences of the University of Peloponnese and Managing Director of the "Centre for European Constitutional Law - Themistokles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation". He teaches at the Hellenic Open University and the National School of Public Administration. He is lawyer at the Supreme Court and member of the Athens Bar Association. He has studied Law in Athens and Munich. His doctoral thesis concerned the constitutional validation of the social state and social rights. His scientific-research interests are focused on the fields of Public Law and Public Policies, while an important part of his work pertains to issues of social administration and social protection institutions. He has publiched so far twenty books and eighty articles, and has supervised the scientific editorship of thirteen volumes. He has participated as scientific supervisor, researcher or expert in a large number of European and national research programmes and projects for the transfer of institutional know-how to third countries. English CV Members    Tsoukalas Constantinos, Vice Presindent,  Professor Emeritus, University of Athens Katrougalos Giorgos, Secretary,  Associate Professor, Democritus University of Thrace Georgouleas Sotiris , Economist  Keridis Dimitris, Associate Professor, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki Metaxas A.-I. D., Professor Emeritus, University of Athens  Mousmouti Maria, Lawyer Ambassador Platis Dimitris, Executive Director - International Business Affairs, Mitilineos Holdings  Tasopoulos  Giannis , Associate Professor, University of Athens Tsantinis Spyros , Assistant Professor, Democritus University of Thrace  Chrysogonos Costas , Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   The German constitutional law professor Peter Häberle has been appointed Honorary President of the Centre.