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Michael S. Dukakis Chair
The "Michael S. Dukakis Chair” in Public Policy and Service at the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), the university division of Anatolia, was inaugurated in 1999. It is a leading forum in Northern Greece and the Balkans for discussion and debate of the pressing issues of our times, with a principal view toward motivating young people to become involved in public service.
Under the aegis of the Dukakis Chair, ACT has hosted numerous events involving esteemed guests from all walks of life including among them: US Ambassador to Greece,
Nicholas Burns; former Greek National Ombudsman,
Nikiforos Diamandouros;
Deputy Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Radmila Sekerinska; Mayor of Tirana,
Edi Rama; Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nadezhda Mihaylova; United Nations Under-Secretary-General,
Alvaro de Soto; President of AHI Cyprus Chapter,
Van Coufoudakis; Former US Ambassador in Greece,
Monteagle Stearns; Director of the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Eleftherios Venizelos Professor,
Kevin Featherstone; Vice President of the Board of Trustees and Senior Advisor on Transatlantic Relations, ELIAMEP,
Theodore Couloumbis, and award-winning authors Thea Halo and Peter Balakian.. Topics have ranged from US foreign policy, to EU and NATO enlargement, sustainable development and corporate responsibility, and historical remembrance.
ACT also welcomes on a regular basis Resident Dukakis Short-Term Fellows for variable periods of between five days and three weeks. Dukakis Fellows have included MIT Professor Emeritus and former US Presidential Science Advisor, Eugene Skolnikoff, World Environment Center Executive Vice President, James Veras, best-selling author, Thea Halo, Dickran Kouymjian, holder of the Haig and Isabel Berberian Chair in Armenian Studies at California State University at Fresno, and Nicholas Burbules, Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor in Education Policy Studies at the University of Illinois.
Dukakis Events
Spring 2000 - Spring 2008
Radmila Sekerinska, Deputy Prime Minister, FYR Macedonia: “FYR Macedonia and Future Membership in the European Union,” October 2003
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8.02.2008: ACT to host prominent authority on Macedonian Question
The American College of Thessaloniki will host Dr. Evangelos Kofos (Anatolia Class of 1952) for a lecture on "Macedonian Identities in Time," on Monday, February 18, at 5 PM in the New Building Audio-Visual Room.
Dr. Kofos is widely recognized to be an expert on the history and politics of the Balkans, with a particular focus on the Macedonian question. He holds degrees from Ohio, Georgetown , and London universities. Dr Kofos is a member of several academic societies and served for many years as Special Counsellor on Balkan affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens. He is currently an advisor at ELIAMEP.
Dr. Kofos will appear at ACT under the auspices of the Michael S. Dukakis Chair in Public Policy and Service.