Christos Iliadis is a PhD social scientist and an independent consultant working for the Council of Europe, the academia and consulting companies. He specialises on issues of inclusion, access to rights and democratic governance. He holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Athens and a doctorate diploma from the Government Department at the University of Essex, UK.
He has 10 years of experience conducting qualitative research and analysis on social and policy issues, including for the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, the Council of Europe and the FMO. He has interdisciplinary research experience in data collecting and drafting reports, including in monitoring studies. He has extensively published both academic and non-academic papers – including a monograph - on the issues of his specialization.
From 2017 until 2022 he was the Greek national coordinator for JUSTROM, a joint programme of the EU and the Council of Europe that promoted access to justice for Roma women. In 2021 he produced monitoring reports with Tetra Tech on the EEA Grants programme "Roma inclusion and empowerment in Greece” and he completed a research report on the barriers to Roma women’s access to justice for the Council of Europe.