Dorothea Papathanasiou, Ph.D.

Tourism and Cultural Heritage Expert

Dorothea Papathanasiou holds degrees in Classics and Germanistics from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has studied Art and Literature at the Otto Friedrich Universität Bamberg and History and Ethnology at the Humboldt  Universität zu Berlin, where she also obtained an M.A. degree in Linguistics. She obtained her M.Sc. and her Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences at the University of the Aegean. She has trained in tourism planning at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. She is fluent in English, German, French, Italian, Russian and has basic knowledge of Turkish. Her technical work experience is closely related to the development and implementation EU funded projects with over 100 applications. She is teaching at the Postgraduate Study Programme "Heritage Policy and Management" Hellenic Open University and the Postgraduate Study Programme "Cultural Policy and Development" at the Open University of Cyprus.  As an active researcher and trainer she has produced so far over 150 publications.

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