Kyrisakos Kouveliotis

Biography:

Professor Dr. Kyriakos Kouveliotis is the Provost and Chief Academic Officer of the BerlinSchool of Business and Innovation (BSBI). He has a PhD in European Integration and International Relations awarded by NewcastleUniversity whereas, he also holds an MA in Diplomacy awarded by Lancaster University UK, a certificate in Linguistics awarded by Bangor University UK and a BA in English Literature and Linguistics awarded by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece. He has also completed two cycles of Post -Doctorate research one on Decision and Policy -Making and one on Conflict Resolution and Crisis Management. Professor Kouveliotis has worked in various research groups, he is an accomplished researcher in a variety of disciplines, and in the last 20 years he has been a Provost and taught in many Universities and educational organizations globally among which City Unity College, Newcastle University, University of Sunderland, Deree College, University of Indianapolis, Hellenic Air Force War College and Hellenic Naval War College to name a few. He is an expert in developing new curricula, programs syllabi and also in building new global educational networks and partnerships as he has already done with institutions from the US, UK, France, Italy, Switzerland and Ireland but also Singapore, India, and Somalia. Professor Kouveliotis has created around 100 new academic programmes at all levels, supervised a number of 5000 dissertations, published 12 books and dozens of original scientific articles. His track record of academic publishing is composed of a variety of papers concerning political, economic and educational issues. He has also served as a Scientific Advisor to the Minister of Defence, to the Deputy Minister of Development and Competitiveness and to the General Secretariat of Communication and Mass Media of the Greek Government. In addition, he was appointed by the Minister of Education as a Member in the Governing Committee of the Hellenic Open University. He also holds various professorships in institutions around the world as Honorary Chancellor and Founder of Longford International College in Ireland, Professor at Uninettuno University in Rome Italy and President of Atheneum Liberal Studies in Europe and in India. Recently, he received a fellowship in the Royal Society of Arts and created in the Hague his own not-for-profit Organisation the “Global Degree Foundation”.