Panagiotis Kakolyris is the Head of International Relations at the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy.

He is an elected Steering Committee Member of the European Network of Political Foundations, based in Brussels, and Chair of the Future of Europe Working Group.

He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International & European Political Economy & Governance (University of Peloponnese – Department of Political Science and International Relations) and Coordinator of the online Political Observatory electionsnet.org.

He has worked as strategy advisor and as journalist - news analyst for several Greek and international media.

He has contributed to the edited volumes: Euroscepticism and Nationalist Populism (Unity in adversity), Brussels 2017, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies and Reconnecting Europe with its citizens-The role of Political Foundations, Brussels 2015, ENOP.

He has studied journalism and digital media in Greece and the United Kingdom (MA in International Broadcast Journalism, University of Central England, Birmingham).