Ioannis Papafloratos was born in 1973. He succeeded in the Greek national exams and studied Law at the University of Thrace from which he graduated in 1997. During his studies, he worked at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy under the supervision of Professor and Deputy Foreign Minister Ioannis Valinakis. The title of his work “The decisions of United Nations, NATO, European Union and Western European Union for the crisis in former Yugoslavia (1991-1996)” was published as background paper in 4 volumes for the Greek diplomats. Ioannis Papafloratos was awarded his Masters of Science from the Amsterdam School of International Relations. In 1999, he started his Doctoral dissertation at the University of Athens under the supervision of the late Professor Constantine Svolopoulos. In 2004, he was awarded a Ph.D. in both International Relations and Modern History with a grade “A”. The next 2 years he worked at the Academy of Athens In September 2009, he was a speaker at the Multinational Peace Support Operations Training Center. Today, he teaches at the Hellenic National Defence College, the Hellenic School of National Security, the Hellenic Air Force War College, the Air Force Command, the Hellenic Air Force Academy and Staff College and The Education & Training College of Hellenic Police. He also taught at the School of Continuing Education and Training of the Hellenic Police of Northern Greece, the Legal Advisors School and People’s University. In December 2010, he received the Academy of Athens Award for his first book on the Hellenic-Italian Crisis of 1923 - the Tellini/Corfu episode. He was a speaker in 31 national and international conferences and as a writer he has participated in 7 collective works. He has published 22 books and more than 340 articles in newspapers and magazines.