Dr Christos Kypraios

Lead Project Officer

Dr Christos Kypraios is Lead Project Officer at Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford. In his role, Dr Kypraios coordinates the development and delivery of scalable, accessible, and high-quality online educational resources for Gazan students, including both structured online courses and curated open-access resource repositories. This strategic project – provisionally titled Oxford Crisis Education (OxCRED) – aims to support students whose education has been disrupted by conflict and displacement, and contributes directly to the University’s priorities in Digital Transformation, Global Engagement, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Drawing on his expertise in research, programme and project management, and online learning, Dr Kypraios works closely with colleagues across the University of Oxford, higher education institutions in Palestine, and a range of external partners to ensure the project’s success, with the view to assist Gazan students and build a sustainable, adaptable model for crisis-responsive education that can be extended to other conflict-affected regions in the future.

Dr Kypraios is also a Senior Common Room member at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, an Academic Affiliate at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL) in Heidelberg, Germany.

Prior to joining Oxford Lifelong Learning, Dr Kypraios worked at the Bonavero Institute for five years (2020-2024) in various roles, including as Research Manager (2024), Programme Coordinator (2022-2023), Programmes and Research Manager (2021-2022), Research Manager (2021), and Programmes Manager (2020). During this time, he managed key research projects and activities, led the Institute’s educational and research facilitation programmes, and represented the Bonavero Institute as an Academic Lead and Senior Management Board member in the AHRC-funded Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre as well as by serving as a Member of the General Assembly of the Association of Human Rights Institutes. Dr Kypraios also led and oversaw major collaborative projects with UNESCO and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, including two global Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on freedom of expression and media freedom (available here and here), convened the Bonavero Perspectives research seminar series, and served as the Editor of the Institute’s flagship policy output, the Bonavero Reports. Previously, he spent six years at the MPIL (2014–2020) as a Research Fellow (2014-2019) and a Senior Research Fellow (2019-2020), conducting research in comparative public law and international law.

His academic background spans law, international relations, and history, with degrees from institutions in Greece (LL.B, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), the UK (LL.M in International Law, University of Nottingham), Turkey and France (MA in International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University and Sciences Po Paris; MA in History, Istanbul Bilgi University), and Switzerland (PhD in Law, University of Basel).