Athanasios Moulakis

Dr. Athanasios Moulakis has over forty years of experience in higher education and academia in Europe, the United States and Asia, and currently serves as Provost at The American University of Iraq–Sulaimani.

As the current top executive of AUI-S, Dr. Moulakis is overseeing the young institution’s expansion from a small start-up to a prominent American-style liberal arts university serving students from every area of Iraq and the neighboring region. Before joining AUI-S, Dr. Moulakis served as Chief Academic Officer and Interim President at the American University of Afghanistan, where he was also a Distinguished Professor of Government & International Relations.

Prior to moving to Asia, Dr. Moulakis was an Adjunct Scholar in South-East European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C, where he conducted research on Balkan politics and Greco-Turkish relations. Between 2001 and 2005, he directed the Institute of Mediterranean Studies at the University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano, and before that he held teaching positions at the University of Colorado, Boulder, the European University Institute, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Ruhr Universität, Bochum.

Dr. Moulakis has authored and edited numerous books on the history of political thought and liberal education, including Beyond Utility, Liberal Education for a Technological Age (1994), which won the AAC&C Frederick Ness Award for Best Book on Liberal Education and was named Choice “Outstanding Book of the Year.”

Dr. Moulakis obtained a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Ruhr Universität, Bochum in 1969 and an MDP Certificate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1995. Dr. Moulakis speaks fluent English, German, French, Italian and Modern Greek.