Professor Despoina Anagnostopoulou holds a Master’s in EU Law from the University of Brussels. During her PhD research at the Democritus University of Thrace she completed a traineeship at the Legal Service of the European Commission (incl. participation in an official visit to Japan) and was awarded a Jean Monnet Scholarship at the European University Institute in Florence.

She worked for 11 years as a researcher at the Greek Centre of International and European Economic Law and has been teaching EU Law and International Business Law at the University of Macedonia (Greece) since 2004, and Internal Market Law at the Open University of Cyprus since 2016. She also taught a course on Racism at the Greek National School of Magistrates (2017-2022) and an EU Law course at Capital University (Ohio, US).

She held a Jean Monnet Chair (2012-2015) and served as Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, and of the Jean Monnet project EU Values, Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue.

Since 2014, she has been the Director of the UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Policy for an Active Citizenship and Solidarity at the University of Macedonia. Most recently, she was a visiting researcher at the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg and at the Oxford University (IECL).