Dr. Spiros Protopsaltis is Governor and Chairman of the Board of Directors of DYPA Public
Employment Service and First Vice-Chair of the European Network of Public Employment Services.
Previously, he was an Associate Professor at George Mason University and director of Ed Policy Forward.
During the Obama Administration, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education and
Student Financial Aid for the US Department of Education, Senior Higher Education Advisor to the Chairman
of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and Senior Policy Advisor to
Congressman Polis of Colorado. He holds a PhD from the University of Colorado Denver, an MS from the
New School University, and a BA summa cum laude from Northeastern University.