Digital Safety in an Interconnected World

Attorney at Law, Member of the Athens and Brussels Bars; Founder and Managing Partner of Pappas & Associates sprl sc (Law Cabinet), Senior Advisor of European Governance Advisors (EGOA).

Former: Judge of the Hellenic Supreme Court (Conseil d’Etat); (First) Secretary General of the National Centre of Public Administration (Athens); Professor of European Law, Director of Faculty and Director General of the European Institute of Public Administration (Maastricht); Director General at the European Commission (Consumer Policy; Information, Communication, Culture and Audiovisual; Education and Culture)

(Special Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office; Member of the Central Committee for the drafting of Laws; Member of the Supreme Council of the Church of Greece representing the Council of State; Senior Adviser to the European Commission in the field of Quality control and Performance management).

Studies: Degree in Law and Degree in Political Sciences (University of Athens); Post-Graduate Diploma in Administrative Law (Panteios School of Economic and Political Sciences, Athens); Certificate in the French Civilization (University of  Sorbonne, Paris); Post-Graduate Degree (D.E.A) in Public Administration and in Public Law (University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne); Certificate in Community Law (Directorate for European Affairs of the Ministry for Coordination, Athens); Diploma in Advance Management Programme (INSEAD, Fontainebleau); Certificate in the USA Governmental System (The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC).

Articles and Books: Numerous articles in the field of administrative and constitutional law, European law, competition policy, audiovisual policy, consumer policy, culture and sport, environment, European integration, administrative science and policy analysis published in scientific reviews, books or newspapers in the most of the European Countries and in the US; the more recent ones are dealing with “The Lisbon strategy and its implementation”, “Competitiveness and data protection”, “Pro-action versus Reaction within the EU”, “Morale and change in the EU”, “When Competition law is a Commercial tool”, “The New European Governance”, “The Euro-Digital Democracy”, “After Nice: more intergovernmental or more federal?”, “The cultural dimension of Euro”, “The paradoxes of the European Community”, “A new era of competition policy? Competition DG and the control of the Court of Justice of the European Communities”. Among the books: “Current trends and developments in the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Communities” EIPA, vol. I, 1993, vol. II 1995; “National Procedures for the preparation and implementation of Community decisions”, EIPA, 1994; “EC Competition Law: Financial aspects”, UK Association of European Law and EIPA, 1994, co-ed. with Lord Slyn; “The changing roles of Parliaments in the European Union, EIPA, 1995, co-ed. with Prof. F. Laursen; “The European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: the challenges of the future”, EIPA, 1996, co-ed. with S. Vanhoonacker.

Decorations and Distinctions: Distinction of the Pan-Greek Dissertation (1968); Honorary title of State Scholar (1971-1973); First Prize of the Foundation for Administrative Law 'Michel Stassinopoulos' (1976); Scholar of the Council of Europe (1977); Officer in the Order of Merit of the Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the diffusion of Community law in the Member States and the creation of the European Centre of Judges and Lawyers in 1992 (1994); “Medal of Honor” from the European Institut (Lodz) for the contribution to Poland’s integration process into the EU (1998); Honorary Fellow of the European College of Sport Science of the Universities of Cologne and Jyväskylä(2000); Honorary Member of the Association of European Journalists (The Hague)(2000)