Lt. General (ret.) Konstantinos Loukopoulos, during his career in the Hellenic Army was assigned in various posts in Greece and NATO.

Inter alia, he was Instructor and Course Director in the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany (2001-2004) where organized Courses and in many other non-NATO countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Ukraine, Russia) Mobile Training Teams  with over than 3000 students.

He was also assigned to NATO HQ/ International Military Staff (IMS) as Defense Planning Coordinator and Capabilities Policy Section Chief (2006-2009) having worked on allied defense planning at the highest level in NATO developing a profound expertise on all matters related to capabilities development . During his assignment chaired regularly the Military Committee Working Group for NATO Capabilities which means that directed and supervised the development of many high level Military Committee (MC) documents.

In Greece Lt General (ret) Loukopoulos, apart from his operational posts, served as Press Officer of the Chief of Defence and as Director of the International Affairs Directorate, in the MOD/General Secretariat for Armaments where he took part as Acting National Armaments Director in the NATO relevant Conference as well as in the European Defense Agency equivalent body.

He is a graduate of the Higher Staff College (Thessaloniki) and the National Defense College, while finished successfully his post- graduate Strategic Security Studies.

After his retirement, General (ret) Loukopoulos  has been working in the Defence and Security field and as a Geostrategic Analyst,  publishing  analysis and articles in Journals  and  daily and weekly Press while also serving as Executive Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Security and Cooperation Observatory.

Expertise: European Security, NATO, Great Power Conflict, Military Security, International Conflict, International Security