Evangelia Psychogiopoulou
Dr. Evangelia Psychogiopoulou is a lawyer and research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). She studied law at the Faculty of Law of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and she obtained a DEA in European and Community Law from the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (2001) and a Master of Research in Law from the European University Institute (2003) in Florence. In 2007, she successfully defended her PhD thesis on the accommodation of cultural diversity considerations in EU law and policies (Art. 167(4) TFEU) at the European University Institute. She has worked at the Academy of European Law (Florence, Italy) and the Directorate General Education and Culture of the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium). She joined ELIAMEP in 2006 and since 2012, she has been a legal counsellor for the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. Her main areas of research are cultural governance, cultural diversity, media governance and fundamental rights in a European perspective. She has conducted research for the EU institutions and she has participated in several collaborative research projects funded by the EU and international organisations. Over the past ten years, she received funding from the European Commission, the European Parliament, UNESCO, the EEA Grants and Maastricht University. From April 2010 to March 2013, she was the coordinator of MEDIADEM, an EU-funded research project on free and independent media (www.mediadem.eliamep.gr). In 2014-2016, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of International and European Law, Maastricht University, leading a project on ‘Managing diversity in the EU: The cultural open method of coordination revisited’. Her articles have appeared in European Law Review, Legal Issues of Economic Integration, European Law Journal, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, and International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, among others. Her publications include: Courts, privacy and data protection in the digital environment (ed., 2017, Edward Elgar); Cultural governance and the European Union: Protecting and promoting cultural diversity in Europe (ed., 2015, Palgrave Macmillan); Media policies revisited: The challenge for media freedom and independence (ed., 2014, Palgrave Macmillan); Understanding media policies: A European perspective (ed., 2012, Palgrave Macmillan); The European Court of Human Rights and the rights of marginalised individuals and minorities in national context (ed., 2010, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Brill); and The integration of cultural considerations in EU law and policies (2008, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers)
