Dr Dimitrios Kantemnidis

Dimitrios Kantemnidis is the Managing Director of the Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) of Lesvos, the European Union’s largest refugee camp based on Lesvos Island, Greece. He previously served as a naval officer in the Greek Navy for 17 years after receiving his bachelor's degree from the Hellenic Naval Academy. Kantemnidis held the rank of captain and second in command officer on numerous warships. He completed postgraduate studies at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School where he earned a Master of Science in Physics and a Master of Arts in Security Studies (Civil-Military Relations). 

He is completing a PhD at the Laboratory for Environmental Policy & Strategic Environmental Management at the Department of Environment of the University of Aegean. His Ph.D. research focuses on how EU-actors around the Common Security and Defence Policy integrate environmental security dimensions. For his doctoral research, he has been a PhD Fellow at the Doctoral School of the European Security and Defense College in Brussels, funded by the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece. 

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