Stelios Perrakis is Professor of International and European Institutions, Department of International, European and Area Studies at Panteion University (Athens). He is Founder and Director of the European Centre of Research and Training on Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, Panteion University and holder of the UNESCO Chair “Democracy, human rights and peace”. From 1996-2000 he was Secretary General of European Affairs, Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2002 he is member of the International Humanitarian Fact-finding Commission.