Efstathios C. Lianos Liantis is Associate Professor in the Geopolitics of Religion and Religious Diplomacy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has served as Special Secretary for Religious and Cultural Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic and as Greece’s first Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism. From 2017 to 2021 he chaired the Greek Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and in 2016 he chaired the National Committee for the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church. He is a founding member of the Holocaust Museum of Greece.

Among his principal policy contributions, he recommended and oversaw Greece’s national adoption of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism and the IHRA Working Definition of Holocaust Denial and Distortion, thereby providing the legal basis for a National Strategy.

His research examines the influence of religious factors on diplomacy and international relations; the geopolitics of religion; the prevention of antisemitism and the safeguarding of Holocaust remembrance; the history and theology of the post-Byzantine Orthodox Church; the formation of religious and cultural identities; and the religious life of confessional communities under Islamic law in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans.

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