What is LPF
The Lesvos Policy Forum
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of the Lesvos Policy Forum 2027 is envisaged as a high-level body composed of distinguished personalities from public life, business sector, international organizations, academia, diplomacy, media, and civil society.
Margaritis Schinas
Former Vice-President of the European Commission; Greek Minister for Rural Development and Food
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
President of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organizing Committee; Founder of the GAPSTI Program at the University of Cambridge
Louka Katseli
Professor Emeritus, NKUA; Former Minister of Economy
Sofia Voultepsi
MP; Former Deputy Minister of Migration
Asaf Hajiyev
Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC)
George Tsounis
Former U.S. Ambassador to Greece; Founder, Chairman and CEO of Chartwell Hotels
Maria-Clara Martin
Former Head of UNHCR Representation in Greece
Gianluca Rocco
Former Chief of Mission in Greece for the International Organization for Migration; Senior IOM Official based in Brussels
Theodoros Tryfon
Vice Chairman and Co-CEO of ELPEN Group; President of the Panhellenic Union of Pharmaceutical Industries
Lenio Myrivili
Global Chief Heat Officer for UN-Habitat and the Atlantic Council; Professor at the University of the Aegean
Spyridon Flogaitis
Director of the European Public Law Organization; Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Vasilis Chiotis
Journalist and Director of SKAI Radio 100.3
Antonia Moropoulou
Professor Emeritus, NTUA; Chief Scientific Supervisor of the Holy Sepulchre Restoration
Stratis Liarelis
Journalist and Executive Adviser to ANTENNA Group
Pavlos Vogiatzis
Former MP; Former Regional Governor & Mayor of Lesvos
George Pleios
Professor of Media Sociology, NKUA; Member of the National Council for Radio and Television
Maria Gavouneli
Professor of International Law, NKUA; Former Director General of ELIAMEP
Evangelos Apostolakis
Admiral (ret.); Former Minister of National Defence; Former Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff
George Xiradakis
Senior Maritime & Investment Banker; Founder of XRTC Business Consultants; President of Hellenic Shipping Financiers
Efstratios Karagiannis
Senior Physician; Head of Radiation Oncology at Kantonsspital Graubünden, Switzerland
Efstratios (Stratis) Gavves
Associate Professor of Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam; ERC Starting Grant Awardee
Vicky Kyriazi
Rheumatologist, Rheumatologische Praxis Wiesbaden, Germany
Stratis Karantanellis
Assistant Professor of Engineering Geology, Natural Hazards & Remote Sensing, California State University, Fullerton
Eleni Christofa
Professor of Transportation Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Specialist in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Sustainable Mobility
Forum Participants
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Location
Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece
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Join the Lesvos Policy Forum 2027
Register to participate in three days of high-level dialogue, strategic sessions and networking at the intersection of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
17 - 19 June 2027 · Mytilene, Lesvos
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