Dimitrios Pandermalis

Prof. Dimitrios Pandermalis is a Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and the President of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. He is also the supervisor of the Archaeological site of Dion, Pieria.

Pandermalis has led research at Dion - an important site at the foot of Mount Olympus where Zeus was honoured by the ancient Greeks - since 1973, and overseen its extensive excavation and transformation into a large archaeological museum and environmental park. Since becoming a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1979, he has additionally served as President of the History and Archaeology Department and as Dean of the Philosophical School.

He has lectured and given presentations on classical archaeology all over the world. From September 1996 to March 2000 Pandermalis served as a National Member of the Greek Parliament. After leaving the Greek Parliament in May 2000, he was appointed President of the Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum, and oversaw the building project between 2003 and the official opening of the museum in June 2009. Pandermalis then became the New Acropolis Museum's first President.