Thanos Dokos

Thanos Dokos is a Greek scholar in international relations, who is serving since October 2020 as the second National Security Advisor of Greece, in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Biography Thanos Dokos is a researcher specializing in international relations, having received a doctorate in international relations and strategic studies from Cambridge University. He has spent time as researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and taught in the universities of Athens and Piraeus, as well as Greece's National Defence School and Diplomatic Academy. In 1996–1998 he worked as scientific director of the Strategic Studies Directorate of the Ministry of National Defence, and in 1998–1999 as an advisor on relations with NATO at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also served as director of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy think tank. Claims by Greek officials that the pranksters used “highly advanced” artificial intelligence were denied by Vovan.