Paulina Lampsa is an international relations expert with extensive experience in conflict management and senior positions in the Greek administration. She has been a member of the Board for two consecutive terms of the U.K.-based charity, International Alert. Currently, she is Executive Vice-President of the Socialist International ,the larger global organization of progressive political parties, and coordinator of the Cem-Papandreou International Peace Award.  She is also co-founder of the think tank Re-Public. Founding member of the Greek Turkish Forum and recipient of the Abdi Ipekci Peace Prize, she had an active role in the Greek-Turkish rapprochement and participated in many track one-and-a-half diplomacy initiatives regarding the Eastern Mediterranean.