Georgios I. Sklavounos

G. Sklavounos, an economist and sociologist, was born in 1943 in Corfu, where he still resides today. He studied as a working student in Greece and the USA. He graduated from the University of Piraeus and obtained a master's degree in Sociology from Georgia State University, where he continued doctoral-level studies in the same field, as well as attended courses in philosophy and management. He participated in the pre-dictatorship student movement and was elected General Secretary of the pre-dictatorship E.F.E.E. of his school's student association, the Corfiot Students' Association. He faced consequences for his student activism, being accused, tried, and convicted with a suspended sentence during the period of apostasy, with the late Nikiforos Mandilaras as his defense. He was arrested and detained at the Piraeus security office and was deprived of his passport. He served in the Greek Army in the 558 T.P. with the honorary specialty of rifleman. He worked for 8 years at the Economic and Social Committee of the EU (as a representative of the Economic Chamber of Greece, where he served as Vice President and Head of International Relations). He also worked as an associate at the Ministry of Culture and Education, the Agricultural Bank, and in the private sector. He focused particularly on issues of Survival and Assimilation of National Cultures, National Cultural Identity and Consciousness, and other related topics. For years, he presented his work on Greek cultural identity and its preservation at training seminars for educators of the Greek Diaspora. His writings have been published in the Athenian press (Eleftherotypia, Vima, Mesimvrini) and in magazines such as "Economic Courier" and "Economic Chronicles." Today, he is the President of the UNESCO Center of the Ionian.