Christos Papagiannis is a PhD researcher at Maastricht University, focusing on the political economy of artificial intelligence in the European Union. He holds a Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Marketing and Communication with International Orientation from the Athens University of Economics and Business. He has collaborated as a research assistant and public affairs consultant with King’s College London’s Centre for Data Futures and has served as a visiting researcher at the LSE–Canada Blanch Centre. He previously served as Director of the Eteron Institute and as a researcher for DPA/Infocom, the research branch of the German Press Agency, and currently serves as Secretary General of the Young European Federalists (JEF Europe).