Board of Directors

According to Article 3 of Presidential Decree 100/1994 (Government Gazette, Series A, No. 78), as amended by paragraph 20 of Article 59 of Law 3966/2011 (Government Gazette, Series A, No. 118), the Board of Directors of the Centre for the Greek Language (CGL) consists of five regular members and five alternate members.

The five-member Board of Directors of the Centre for the Greek Language (as constituted by the Ministerial Decision published in Government Gazette, Series Y.O.D.D., No. 893/24.6.2026) is composed as follows:

    1. Antonios Rengakos, Emeritus Professor, Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Chairman, with Evangelos Alexiou, Professor, Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, serving as Alternate Member.
    2. Georgios Giannakis, Emeritus Professor, Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with Sophia Kotzabassi, Professor, Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, serving as Alternate Member.
    3. Christos Tsagalis, Professor, Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with Ioannis Tzifopoulos, Professor, Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, serving as Alternate Member.
    4. Christoforos Charalambakis, Full Member of the Academy of Athens and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with Panagiotis Filos, Associate Professor of Historical and Indo-European Linguistics, Department of Philology, University of Ioannina, serving as representatives of the Ministry of Culture.
    5. Spyridoula Varlokosta, Professor, Division of Linguistics, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with Maria Iakovou, Professor, Division of Linguistics, Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, serving as representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Matters Concerning the Greek Diaspora.

The members of the Board of Directors and their alternate members are appointed for a five-year term of office.