Kyriakos Souliotis is Professor of Health Policy and Dean of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of the Peloponnese, where he also served as Vice Rector for Social and Regional Development (2016-2017).

He is currently Director of the Laboratory for the Evaluation of Health Policies, Technologies and Behaviours at the University of the Peloponnese, President of the Scientific Committee of the Greek Patient Association, and a member of the Steering Committee of PACT, the Patient Access Partnership on Equity of Access to Quality Healthcare, in Brussels. He is the founder, chair and scientific director of the Health Policy Institute.

He has acted as Scientific Advisor to the Social Insurance Institute (IKA) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (2002-2004), member of the Board of the A’ Health Care Trust of Attica, Head of Human Resources Management at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (2002-2006), Administrative Director at MITERA, Hygeia Group (2006-2007), and Managing Director of Planning and Development at the Mutual Health Fund of the National Bank of
Greece Personnel (2007-2010). He served as President of OPAD (2010-2011) and Vice President of EOPYY (2011-2012), as a member of the National Ethics Committee for Clinical Trials and the Steering Committee for Rare Diseases (2010-2013), and as Associate Director at the Medical Technology Research Group of LSE Enterprise. He has published 35 books and more than 350 chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on health policy and economics, health reform, the organisation of health services, health inequalities and patient empowerment.