Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos is Scientific Adviser at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). His areas of expertise include equality and non-discrimination, social inclusion, hate crime, and child rights. He studied social science in the United Kingdom and since 1983 has worked in academic institutions, where he lectured and conducted quantitative and qualitative social research. In parallel, during the 1990s he worked in local and regional government. Later, he also coordinated national and transnational research projects. Since 2003, when he started working for the Agency, he has been responsible for several of its major publications and contributed extensively to a number of policy documents.