Dr. Theodoros Tsakiris
Assistant Professor of Geopolitics & Energy Policy
University of Nicosia
T: +357 22 841735
E: [email protected]
Dr. Theodoros Tsakiris is an Assistant Professor of Geopolitics and Energy Policy at the University of Nicosia,
where he is directing the Energy, Oil and Gas programs of the University’s Business School. He is also a Visiting
Professor at the ESCP Europe Business School in Paris and a member of the board of the Hellenic Association
for Energy Economics, the Greek national chapter of the IAEE. Dr. Tsakiris is an international Research
Associate of ESCP’s London-based Research Center for Energy Management and has been, since 2011, the
director of the Energy & Geopolitics Program at the Greek Foreign Policy think-tank ELIAMEP. In this capacity
he participates in the Horizon 2020 research program FEUTURE (2016-2019) that studies the prospects of EU-
Turkish relations (http://www.eliamep.gr/en/category/security-regional-developments/feuture/)
Between 2014-2015 he was an Associate of the Southeast Europe Program at the LSE where he published a
study on the role of Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean (http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/publications/
reports/SU14_7.aspx). Dr. Tsakiris has served in several high-level policy-making positions in Greece and
Cyprus, including that of the Director for International Policy Planning for the Greek Minister of Energy and
senior adviser to three consecutive energy ministers. Dr. Tsakiris has also served as a member of the Board of
Directors of the national oil & gas company of Cyprus, CHC, as well as a senior policy adviser to the CEO of the
Greek Natural Gas TSO, DESFA and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) consortium.
"The importance of East Med Gas for EU Energy Security"