Nikos E. Papadakis (ΒΑ, ΜΑ, ΜΑ, PhD) is Professor and former Head of the Department of Political Science, at the University of Crete. He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the AGEP of the Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China. Further, he is a Member of the Scientific Board of the National Centre of Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA) of Greece, while he is the Director of the Centre for Training and Life Long Learning of the University of Crete (KEDIVIM- UoC). In addition, he is Honorary President of the Hellenic Association of Political Scientists (HAPSc), while he is a member of the Standing Group of the ECPR Political Culture Standing Group. Additionally, he is the Director of the Centre for Political Research and Documentation (KEPET) at the Department of Political Science. He was a Special Adviser to the European Commission (2011 -2013) and he has participated the European Commission 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 SGIB (Standing Group on Indicators & Benchmarks/ 2007- 2012). He has been a Visiting Professor at the UCL- IoE, in UK (March 2012- August 2012) and at the Zhengzhou University (ZZU), in China (November 2019). He participates External Evaluation Committees of the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education of the Republic of Cyprus (DI.PA.E). Additionally, he cooperates with the ESRC- funded “LLAKES” Research Centre of the UCL-IoE, while he is an Affiliated Researcher at the Research Centre of the University of Piraeus.

He has studied at the University of Crete and at the IoE of the University of London (currently UCL- IoE). He has 222 publications, in total. More specifically: He has 197 publications (88 out of them, international), in Greek, English, French and Chinese, including journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. He is the author/ co-author of 14 books- monographs, in Greek and English, while he has edited 11 books. He has (on September 3, 2024) 744 citations (h-index: 12) in Google Scholar (as well as 123 in Scopus and 90 in the Web-of-Science). 289 presentations & Keynote Speeches in Conferences and Workshops and Invited Lectures in Greece and abroad (128 out of them, in International Conferences and Workshops, as well as in European and Asian Universities). He has participated (or currently participating) in 56 (mainly research) Projects in Greece and abroad, either as Team Leader or as researcher/ expert.