Michalis Attalides

Michalis Attalides  is currently the Rector of the University of Nicosia and holder of a Jean Monnet Chair at the University. He has been a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester, a counterpart to the UNESCO Expert at the Cyprus Social Research Centre and a Guest Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. He has represented the Republic of Cyprus as its Ambassador in a number of capitals, including Paris, London, and the European Union in Brussels, before being appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also represented the Cyprus government in the European Convention.  His books include Social Change and Urbanisation in Cyprus: A Study of Nicosia (1971), Cyprus Reviewed (ed.) (1977), Cyprus: Nationalism and International Politics (1980) and (in Greek), Cyprus: State, Society and International Environment (2009).

He has also published a number of articles on society and politics in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, and on the European Union.