George Katrougalos is professor of Public Law, former minister of foreign affairs of Greece (2019). He is currently member of the Greek Parliament, shadow minister of foreign affairs of SYRIZA party. He is also President of the Group of Unified Left at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and President of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and the Arab World. He has served as member of the European Parliament (2014-2015), State Minister for European Affairs (2016-2018), Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity (2015-2016) and State Minister for Administrative Reforms of Greece (2015). Over the years of the Greek Crisis, he has been writing critically on the legal issues of debt, austerity and their impact on human rights and the social state and he has been a founding member of the Initiative for a Public Audit Control of Greek Public Debt.
He has lectured as visiting professor or invited speaker, among others, at the Universities of Oxford, NYU, Columbia, Humboldt, London School of Economics, Roskilde, Dublin College University, Tilburg, UNAM, New Delhi Law School. He has worked as international expert on human rights and institutional building in Albania, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Syria and North Macedonia and as legal advisor to the Greek Mission at the United Nations on Human Rights issues. He is member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law and the Association of Greek Constitutionalists, former member of the board of KETHEA (Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals) and UNICEF Greece. He has published extensively in Greek, American, European and Asian legal reviews.