Recent DGA Grad Dr. Pano Yannakogeorgos: “Creating a Legacy of Action, Involvement and Scholarship”
CREATING A LEGACY OF ACTION, INVOLVEMENT AND SCHOLARSHIP
Panayotis A. Yannakogeorgos, Graduate School-Newark, Ph.D., resident of New Brunswick, NJ
Ceremony: May 19, 2 p.m., Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren St., Newark
With a keen eye for spotting voids and filling them, in 2007 Panayotis “Pano” Yannakogeorgos, a doctoral student and teaching fellow in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University in Newark, designed and began teaching an upper-level undergraduate course titled “Problems in International Relations: Diplomacy and Intelligence.” The course encourages students to read critically, think logically, and question intelligently the practice of diplomacy and intelligence and the interplay between the two.
Recognizing the need for a medium that enables global affairs scholars and professionals to share their research and views, Pano founded the Journal of Global Change and Governance (JGCG) in 2007. JGCG is a free e-journal that facilitates interdisciplinary exchanges among scholars of anthropology; business; criminal justice; economics; history; law; philosophy; political science; public affairs and administration; and sociology. Upon graduation from Rutgers, Pano will continue to serve as founding publisher and editor-in-chief of JGCG and enhance its fundraising capability and outreach.
To satiate his entrepreneurial appetite, Pano recently founded Cyrtone Consulting, a cybersecurity policy and global affairs research and advising firm. He plans to remain in the New York metropolitan area where he will offer expertise to corporations, small-businesses, federal government, the United Nations and other organizations. His experience with the United Nations already includes an appointment in 2008 as a delegate-expert by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the International Telecommunications Union Global Cybersecurity Agenda’s High Level Experts Group. He also served as an advisor in 2006-2007 for the Permanent Mission of Greece’s United Nations Security Council desk on issues pertaining to non-proliferation, the Middle East and Al-Qaeda.
When Pano is not designing courses, founding e-journals, and establishing consulting firms, he finds time to give back to the Rutgers community. He has served as president of the Student Association for Global Affairs as well as university senator, representing the Graduate School-Newark.
Pano received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Harvard University, cum laude, in 2005, and a master’s degree in global affairs from Rutgers University, Newark, in 2007. His many honors include the Walter F. Weiker Scholarship and the Graduate Student Excellence Award; both awarded in 2008 by Rutgers University in Newark.
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