Athanasios G. Platias is a Professor of Strategy at the University of Piraeus. He is also the President of the Council of International Relations-Greece and the Coordinator for Europe of the Mackinder Forum.

He has received an M.A and a Ph.D in International Relations from the Department of Government at Cornell University. He has also been a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University and a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at the Program for Science, Technology and International Security, MIT and the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Professor Platias held several senior advisory positions in the public and private sector in the last 35 years. He also held several senior academic positions such as Dean of the School of Economics, Business and International Studies and Chairman of the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Piraeus.

Professor Platias is the author of numerous books and articles. He has written on four principal areas: Grand Strategy, Geopolitics and Geoeconomics, Regional Security (with emphasis on South Eastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean) and Leadership.  He is the co-author of Thucydides on Strategy: Grand Strategies in the Peloponnessian War and Their Relevance Today (Oxford University Press, 2017). His forthcoming book on the Art of Strategy: 50 Maxims for War, Politics and Business (Hurst Publishers/Oxford University Press) will be released in 2025.