Despoina Anagnostopoulou is a Professor in the Department of International & European Studies at the University of Macedonia, Greece, and has been teaching at the Open University of Cyprus since 2016. Her expertise includes EU law, institutions and policies, as well as human rights, migration and anti-discrimination law. From 2018 to 2022, she was the Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet EUVaDis project, and since 2014, she has been the Director of the UNESCO Chair on 'Intercultural Policies for Active Citizenship and Solidarity' at the University of Macedonia. She also held the Jean Monnet Chair on "New Dimensions of EU Legal Studies" (2012-2015), and was the Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "Research on Crucial Issues of European Integration" at the University of Macedonia. Prior to her academic career, Dr Anagnostopoulou worked for 11 years as a researcher at the Centre for International and European Economic Law in Greece. She is also a member of the Council of the European Law Institute in Vienna.