Yannis Mastrogeorgiou is the Special Secretary of Foresight in the Presidency of the Greek Government. 

He has several years of experience in the fields of politics, innovative research and advertising. He has served as Secretary General of Communication and Media at the Presidency of the Greek Government.

He has also served as the Director General of the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute of Democracy and Director of the think tank “DIKTIO for the reformation of Greece and Europe”. 

Moreover, he has served as Director of Communications and special advisor to the Minister of Education, as well as special advisor to the Minister of Development and to the Greek Parliament. He has worked for large multinational companies in advertising and political communication. 

Yannis was a Marshall Memorial Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). 

He studied History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as International Relations, European Political Economy and European Law at the University of the Aegean and the Athens University of Economics and Business.   

He is a PhD candidate at the Department of  History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens.