1. Nikiforos Diamandouros was re-elected as European Ombudsman in 2005 and again in 2010.
13 Facts About Nikiforos Diamandouros
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Nikiforos Diamandouros's interests include classical music, film, reading, and writing.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros has published writings on state-building, and nation-building, on democratisation and on the relationship between culture and politics.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros has written widely about the politics and history of Greece and Southern Europe.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros took up the role of Director of Development at Athens College, Athens, Greece in 1980.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros served as president of the Modern Greek Studies Association from 1985 until 1988.
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From 1988 to 1991 Nikiforos Diamandouros was Director of the Greek Institute for International and Strategic Studies, a research organisation in Athens.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros is Emeritus Professor of comparative politics at the University of Athens Department of Political Science and Public Administration.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros is joint General Editor of an Oxford University Press series on New Southern Europe and has received research grants from Fulbright and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros was appointed a member of the Greek National Commission on Human Rights in 1999.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros was the first National Ombudsman of Greece, serving from 1998 to 2003.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros was elected to a full term of his own in 2005, and to a second term in 2010.
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Nikiforos Diamandouros has received the Gold Cross of Merit and the Order of the Phoenix.