Nikias Stefanakis
Nikias Stefanakis is a global strategist and consultant whose personal lived geography — Athens, Cambridge, Prague, Boston — shaped an international worldview from childhood. Born in Athens, Greece, moving through three countries before age 11, Nikias’ earliest experiences forged in him both a comfort with mobility and an instinct to decode complex cultural and economic systems — the exact instincts that later defined his academic focus and professional life.
Nikias is a proud graduate of Tufts University, where he majored in International Relations and Economics. At Tufts he was not only a disciplined scholar, but also a deeply engaged citizen of the campus. He played goalkeeper for the Tufts Men’s Soccer Team his first year and remained active in the International Club and the Tufts Hellenic Society.
As for the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts — Nikias’ undergraduate years were very much IGL-era years. While the publicly available record does not explicitly confirm a formal EPIIC seminar participation or specific IGL fellowships, Nikias’ International Relations major, his campus organizations, and his international lived biography put him in the intellectual orbit of IGL’s community and peer set at the time — students whose work was animated by real- world global systems, cross-border understanding, and rigorous policy thinking. His undergraduate profile reads as someone naturally adjacent to that ecosystem.
Professionally, Nikias has built a career in consulting, business strategy, and client advisory work — the type of strategic consulting that sits at the intersection of global markets, organization-building, and cross-cultural analysis. Colleagues and peers describe him as someone who reads organizations, reads people, and reads context — and then gives the kind of clear, precise advisory counsel that creates momentum.
His academic formation — Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School followed by Tufts — was in environments known for social justice literacy, internationalism, and intellectual pluralism. His familial roots in Greece, and youth in the Czech Republic in the years immediately after the fall of the Soviet bloc, gave him personal proximity to some of the most important political- economic transitions of the late 20th century.