Elias Dinas

Elias Dinas

Professor of Political Science, Swiss Chair of Federalism, Democracy and International Governance

European University Institute, Italy

Elias Dinas holds the Swiss Chair in Federalism, Democracy and International Governance at the European University Institute. He is also the Head of the Social and Political Science department. Professor Dinas has an ERC Consolidator grant titled Post-Authoritarian Norms and the Ideological Legacy of Dictatorships (POSTNORM). Prior to the EUI, Professor Dinas worked as Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford (where he was also a Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College) and Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (2010) and his research focuses on the role of culture in the formation and transmission of political identities. He is a founding member of the Greek Public Policy Forum.