Spiros Rizopoulos is the founder and owner of Spin Communications (2003).Spiros has been active in providing services to companies, political personalitiesand non-profit organizations in the area of Southeastern Europe since April 2001. His serviceshave been focused on strategic planning of the customized communication needs, such asreputation management methods and strategies, media relations, crisis management, electoralstrategies as well as political management, executive branch political consulting etc.Prior to his activities in Greece Spiros Rizopoulos worked as Director of Strategic Planning &Communication at the Western Policy Center in Washington DC (1997-2001), and as aCommunication Consultant of Lazarus Strategic Services (1994-1997), also based inWashington.Spiros holds a Masters’ Degree from the Graduate School of PoliticalManagement from George Washington University (1996), a Masters’ Degree in InternationalRelations from Northeastern Illinois University (1994), and a Bachelor Degree in PoliticalScience from Northeastern Illinois University as well (1992).His analyses and interviews have been published in leading Greek newspapers and printpublications, such as Kathimerini, Eleftherotypia, Vima, Isotimia, Express, OikonomikosTachydromos Magazine, and Status Magazine, with continuous presence in Greek andAmerican media, such as CNN, NY Times and Christian Science Monitor newspapers, TIMEmagazine, AntennaTV, AlphaTV, etc.Spiros has also enjoyed a strong academic presence and been popular for hislectures on relative matters over his 23 years of tenure as a Communications professional. Hispresentations in prominent Greek and foreign academic institutions, such as NortheasternUniversity, City University of London, Indianapolis University (Athens), the HellenicNational Defence College, and the Universities of Athens and Ioannina, have been numerous.