Dr. Dimitris Stavrou

Dr. Dimitrios Stavrou is an educator and researcher at Mediterranean College, specialising in Educational Leadership, Organisational Management, and Educational Policy. He holds a PhD in Pedagogy from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with a doctoral thesis examining the Ministry of Education and the Teachers’ Federation of Greece as institutional actors in the evaluation of educational work (1996–2023), and an MSc in Educational Policy and Administration, also from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a BSc in Primary Education from the University of the Aegean. With over two decades of experience in the Greek educational system, Dr. Stavrou has served as a public-school teacher, Director of a state primary school, Director of a private school, and IB PYP teacher at CGS Kostea-Geitona Schools. He has also served as an Associate Lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, delivering the course History of Education. His published work focuses on school leadership models, New Public Management in education, and decentralisation of the educational system, with articles in peer-reviewed journals and a monograph published by Papazissis. He has also been recognised for his creative writing, receiving awards in both short fiction and poetry.