College Year in Athens is a non-profit educational organization operating in Greece since 1962, offering English-speaking international university students courses with an emphasis on Greece and the Mediterranean. Since 1997, it has been exclusively represented by the International Center for Greek and Mediterranean Studies and operates in the form of an urban non-profit company, with its own professors and privately owned academic facilities. The teaching is in English, except of course for the courses of learning Greek.

Thanks to the high academic standard achieved through the systematic evaluation of students and teachers, CYA has gained credibility, prestige and reputation in the university circles of the USA and Canada.

In the last 60 or so years, more than 10,000 American and Canadian students studied Greek culture and the Greek language, got to know Greek and became spiritual friends and cultural ambassadors of our country abroad.

He is the President of College Year in Athens, as well as of its subsidiary educational organization DIKEMES (International Center for Greek and Mediterranean Studies). He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens and did postgraduate studies at Princeton University and Cambridge University. Before assuming the directorship of the CYA, he served as the Director of the Press Office at the Embassy of Greece in Washington and then at the Embassy in Mexico. He was Director of External Relations of SEV. He has been managing the CYA since 1986. He is the Vice President of the Board. of the College of Athens, member of the Board of Directors of the Archaeological Society, member of the Board of Directors of EUASA (European Association of Study Abroad), President of the Princeton University Alumni Association in Greece and was previously a member of the Board of Directors companies and educational institutions.