Governance

CYA is governed by a Board of Trustees, comprising persons distinguished for their professional accomplishments in the areas of law, business, education, philanthropy and scholarship. Members of the Board volunteer their time and resources to support CYA and usually meet twice a year, once in the States and once in Greece.

CYA also has a Board of Advisors, whose members help ensure the continued excellence of CYA programs.

In addition, CYA has recently established an Academic Advisory Roundtable, which brings study abroad professionals and faculty together with CYA faculty and staff in structured discussions. This informal yet serious exchange of inspiration and ideas focuses on the academic experience of CYA programs.

Board of Trustees

K. Chris Todd
Chairman, Board of Trustees, College Year in Athens; Partner, Kellogg Hansen Todd  Figel & Frederick, PLLC

Alexis G. Phylactopoulos
Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees, College Year in Athens; President, College Year in Athens

Peter Sutton Allen (CYA ’65)
Treasurer, Board of Trustees, College Year in Athens; Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Rhode Island College

Daphne Hatsopoulos
Secretary, Board of Trustees, College Year in Athens; Trustee Emerita, Boston Museum of Science

Evita Arapoglou
Director of the Leventis Art Gallery at Nicosia, Cyprus

Michail Bletsas
Research Scientist and Director of Computing, MIT Media Lab

Andrea Hannon Brown (CYA ’73)
School Psychologist

Anastassis G. David
Chairman of the Board, Coca Cola HBC AG

Dimitri Gondicas
Director, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University

Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos (CYA '83)
Professor of Neuroscience, University of Chicago

John C. Hermansen (CYA '71)
Founder & CEO, Language Analysis Systems, Inc.;
IBM Distinguished Engineer (ret.)

Julia Hotz (CYA ‘14)
Community Manager, Solutions Journalism Network

Yannis Ioannides
Max & Herta Neubauer Chair & Professor of Economics, Tufts University

George Komodikis
Member-Advisory Board, Ipswich Investment Management Co., Inc.

Christine Kondoleon
George and Margo Behrakis Chair of Greek and Roman Art, Department of Art of Ancient Greece and Rome, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Zoë Sophia Kontes (CYA ’95)
Associate Professor and Chair of Classics, Kenyon College

Ulysses Kyriacopoulos
Fmr Chairman, Hellenic Foundation of Greek Enterprises (SEV); fmr Chairman, Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE); Member of the Board of Imerys Industrial Minerals Greece S.A., ASK Chemicals, Lamda Development

Laetitia La Follette (CYA ’75)
Professor of History of Art & Architecture, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nitzia Embiricos Logothetis (CYA ‘02)
Founder and Executive Chairwoman, Seleni Institute

Theo Melas-Kyriazi
Chief Financial Officer, Levitronix Technologies LLC

Alexander Moissis
Vice President, Corporate Development, M&A Execution, SAP

Yiannis Monovoukas
Founder and Manager, Helios Global Investments LLC

Elaine Papoulias (CYA ’91)
Executive Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Constantine P. Petropoulos
Chairman Emeritus, Petros Petropoulos A.E.B.E.

Elias Samaras
Founder, President and Managing Director, Digital Security Technologies S.A.

Endy Zemenides (CYA '95)
Executive Director, Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC)


Cornelia Mayer Herzfeld (CYA ’66)
Recording Secretary of the Board of Trustees and Special Consultant to the President, College Year in Athens

---

Trustees Emeriti

John McK. Camp II
Director of the Agora Excavations, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

George A. David
Director, Leventis Group

Joan Caraganis Jakobson (CYA ‘65)
Free-Lance Writer; Advisory Board, Wesleyan Writers Conference; Trustee, New York Historical Society

Edmund Keeley
Straut Professor of English Emeritus and Director of Hellenic Studies Emeritus, Princeton University

Mary R. Lefkowitz
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Emerita, Wellesley College

Raphael Moissis
Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees, College Year in Athens; Chair Emeritus, Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE) - Greece; Honorary Chairman, AB Vassilopoulos S.A.

Alexander Nehamas
Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton University

Anne Rothenberg (CYA '66)
Trustee, The Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens

Thanos Veremis
Professor of Political History Emeritus, University of Athens; Vice Chairman, ELIAMEP

Polyvios Vintiadis
Director, Morgens Waterfall Vintiadis & Co.

---

Board of Advisors 

P. Nikiforos Diamandouros
Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Athens; Former Greek Ombudsman

Jack Davis
Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology, University of Cincinnati; Former Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Thomas W. Gallant (CYA ’76)
Nicholas Family Endowed Chair, Professor of Modern Greek History, University of California, San Diego

Michael Herzfeld
Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

Artemis Leontis
Professor of Modern Greek; Chair, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan

Thomas J. Miller
Former U.S. Ambassador to Greece; President/CEO, International Executive Service Corps (IESC)

Gregory Nagy
Director, Center for Hellenic Studies; Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Alan Shapiro (CYA '69)
W.H.Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology, The John Hopkins University; Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992-93, 2012-13

Voula Tsouna
Professor of Philosophy/Chair, UC-Santa Barbara

Advisors Emeriti

Christos Doumas
Professor of Archaeology Emeritus, University of Athens; Director, Excavations at Akrotiri, Thera

Peter Green
James R. Dougherty Jr. Centennial Professor of Classics Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin; Adjunct Professor of Classics, University of Iowa

Martha Sharp Joukowsky
Professor Emerita of Old World Archaeology and Art, Brown University; Director, Petra Southern Temple Excavations; Former President of the Archaeological Institute of America

Gerald Lalonde
Professor Emeritus of Classics, Grinnell College

Lily Macrakis
Special Counselor to the President of Hellenic College-Holy Cross

Stephen G. Miller
Professor of Classical Archaeology Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley; Former Director, Excavations at Nemea

Stephen V. Tracy
Former Director, American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University

Charles Kaufman Williams II
Director Emeritus, Corinth Excavations, American School of Classical Studies
 

---

Academic Advisory Roundtable

Michael Arnush
Chair, Department of Classics, Skidmore College

Kendall Brostuen
Director of International Programs/Associate Dean of the College, Brown University

Jennifer Ewald
Director, Office of Study Abroad, Fairfield University

Hal Haskell
Professor of Classics, Southwestern University

Pam Haskell
Professor of Classics, Southwestern University

Alexander Kitroeff
Associate Professor, History Department, Haverford College

Nicolas Prevelakis
Lecturer on Social Studies, at Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and Assistant Director of Curricular Development at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.

Prema Samuel
Associate Dean, Study Abroad and Exchange Programs, Sarah Lawrence College

Alain Toumayan
Professor of French, University of Notre Dame

Margaret Wiedenhoeft
Executive Director, Center for International Programs, Kalamazoo College