Nikos E. Papadakis (ΒΑ, ΜΑ, ΜΑ, PhD) is Professor and former Head of the Department of Political Science, at the University of Crete (UoC). He is a Member of the Scientific- Educational Council (EES) and the Deputy President of the Central Accreditation Committee (KEP) of the National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA) of Greece, as well as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the AGEP of the Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China and the Director of the Centre for Training and Life Long Learning (KEDIVIM) of the UoC. Further, he is Honorary President of the Hellenic Association of Political Scientists (HAPSc), while he is a Member of the Scientific Board of the Centre for European Constitutional Law (CECL), the ECPR “Political Culture” Standing Group, the Editorial Board of the “Frontiers in Political Science” and the UN/ SDSN Global Additionally, he is the Director of the Centre for Political Research and Documentation (KEPET) of the Department of Political Science, UoC.

He has been a Special Adviser to the European Commission (2011 -2013) and an International Expert at the European Training Foundation/ ETF (2015-2017). Further, he has participated the European Commission’s Education & Training Coordination Group (ETCG/2006-2010), as well as the Advisory Board of the UNDP/ RCPAR (Regional Centre for Public Administration Reform/ 2008- 2011) and the European Commission’s SGIB (Standing Group on Indicators & Benchmarks/ 2007- 2012). Additionally, he has been a Visiting Professor at the UCL- IoE, in UK (March 2012- August 2012) and at the Zhengzhou University (ZZU), in China (October- November 2019), while he has served, as an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Social & Educational Policy of the University of the Peloponnese (2004-2006).

He participates (since 2017) External Evaluation Committees (EECs) of the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education of the Republic of Cyprus (DI.PA.E). Additionally, he cooperates with the Institute of Labor of the General Federation of Greek Workers (INE/GSEE) and the “LLAKES” Research Centre of the UCL-IoE, while he is an Affiliated Researcher- Expert at the Institute (“Social Multicentre”) of the Hellenic Federation of Civil Servants, as well as at the Research Centre of the University of Piraeus.

He has studied at the University of Crete and at the IoE (Institute of Education & Society) of the University of London (currently UCL- IoE).

He has 230 publications, in total. More specifically: He has 205 publications (91 out of them, international, including papers published in Q1, & Q2 Journals and chapters in Springer and Elsevier Books), in Greek, English, French and Chinese, He is the author/ co-author of 14 books- monographs, in Greek and English, while he has edited 11 books in Greek and English. He has (on Jan. 19, 2025) 775 citations (h-index: 13) in Google Scholar (as well as 132 in Scopus and 99 in the Web-of-Science). 299 presentations, Invited Lectures & Keynote Speeches in Conferences and Workshops in Greece and abroad (132 out of them, in International Conferences and Workshops, as well as in European, Asian and US Universities). He has participated (or currently participating) in 57 (mainly research) Projects in Greece and abroad, either as Team Leader or as researcher/ expert.