Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Contact details
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 6786
E-mail: D.Dimitrakopoulos@bbk.ac.uk
About Dr Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos
Dr Dimitrakopoulos was born in Athens and holds degrees from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens), the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Hull. He joined Birkbeck in 2002 as Lecturer in Politics. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has held an individual Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Oxford (Dept. of Politics & International Relations and Nuffield College) and the National Bank of Greece Senior Fellowship at the LSE's Hellenic Observatory/European Institute. He has also worked as a stagiaire in the Secretariat General of the European Commission. He is the director of the MSc in European Politics & Policy and is currently serving on the ESRC's Peer Review College.
Latest highlights
- Panel debate (including Peter A. Hall, Harvard University) on the implications of the French presidential elections, Today, China Radio International, broadcast live on 15 May 2012.
- Panel debate on the crisis in the eurozone, CrossTalk, Russia Today TV, broadcast on 11 May 2012.
- Interview with Danish daily newspaper Information on the crisis in Greece, published on 9 May 2012.
- Interview on the outcome of the Greek general election of 6 May 2012, Voice of America (London), 8 May. The article is available here and the video recording here.
- Greek election forum 2012, panel debate, LSE, 8 May 2012.
- Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. 2012. Between the party and the European Union? The regulation of working time in France. French Politics, Culture & Society, 30(1): 88-110.
- _____. Forthcoming (2012). La régulation du temps de travail en Grande-Bretagne: à la croisée des changements politiques nationaux et de l’influence de l’Union européenne. Travail et Emploi (128).
- _____, and E. C. Page. In press. Rewards at the top: the European Union. In Rewards for High Public Office in Europe and North America, edited by B. Guy Peters and Marleen Brans. London/New York: Routledge.
- Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G., and Argyris G. Passas. In press. International organizations and domestic administrative reform. In Handbook of Public Administration, 2nd revised and updated edition, edited by B. G. Peters and J. Pierre. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
- Roundtable at Birkbeck (22 March 2012) on the French elections of 2012. The details appear here.
- Roundtable at Birkbeck on social democracy and Europe's crisis (16 February 2012). The podcast of this event is available here.
- Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. and Marco Scipioni. 2012. New treaty or institutionalised hypocrisy?. OpenDemocracy, 22 March.
- Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G. 2012. Social democracy and Europe’s crisis. OpenDemocracy, 20 February.
- Scipioni, Marco and Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos. 2012. Exceptionalism as an excuse in Europe’s crisis. openDemocracy, 7 February.
- TV interview on the negotiations between the Greek government and private financial institutions to reduce Greece’s public debt, World Business Report programme, BBC World, broadcast live on 20 January 2012.
- Letter published in the Daily Telegraph, 21 December 2011.
- Interview on the crisis in Greece and the eurozone, Good morning Scotland programme, BBC Radio Scotland, broadcast live on 4 November 2011.
- Interview on the 'repatriation of powers' from Brussels, Today programme, BBC Radio 4, 29 October 2011.
- The Tory EU rebellion is about neo-liberalism, not British sovereignty. openDemocracy, 26 October 2011.
- Leaving the eurozone would be a disaster for Greece. The Guardian, 22 September 2011, 35.
- Υποσχέσεις χωρίς περιεχόμενο, Ελευθεροτυπία, 13 Οκτωβρίου 2011, 10.
- Οι καταστροφικές συνέπειες της εξόδου από την ευρωζώνη, Ελευθεροτυπία, 1 Οκτωβρίου 2011, 24.
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