Dimitris Ballas is a Full Professor (Chair in Economic Geography) in the Department of Economic Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen.
He is an economist by training (1996, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece) and has also previously worked as Associate Professor at the University of the Aegean, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield.
"I will pay particular attention to increasing the possibilities of giving citizens and non-citizens a voice in shaping their common future and promoting new ways to enhance and widen EU citizenship."