Eirini Giannopoulou

Eirini Giannopoulou is a PhD Candidate of International Affairs at the New School for Social Research in New York (USA). She graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Athens, majoring in International and European Studies, in 2021. In 2023, she completed her first MA (with Honours) in International Governance and Politics at the same department. She finished the MSc Violence, Conflict and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London (SOAS) in 2025. Her research interest is centered around private capital flows in conflict resolution, within the liberal peacebuilding agenda and the security-development nexus. She has carried out Internships at the Embassy of Cyprus in Athens, at the Embassy of Greece in Brussels and at the Permanent Mission of Cyprus to the United Nations in New York. She speaks Greek, English and French and is learning Spanish and Russian. She is a member of the CEMMIS research team since 2021.