Dionysis (Sakis) Karagiorgas was born on April 17, 1930, in Pyrgos, Ilia. He died on August 17, 1985, in Athens, at the age of only 55.
| He was an economist, academic, rector of Panteion University, and an active resistance fighter against the military dictatorship of 1967–1974. |
The Sakis Karagiorgas Foundation was established in 1989 by Presidential Decree of June 8, 1989, as published in the Government Gazette (FEK) 457/12-6-1989/B, as a public benefit institution, in honor of the late Panteion University professor Sakis Karagiorgas, who passed away in 1985.
The purpose of the Foundation is the interdisciplinary research of issues concerning the economic, political, and social dimension of the state in the modern social formations that were the subject of the scientific inquiry and teaching of Sakis Karagiorgas.
Specific objectives include:
- The research into the composition of state functions.
- The role of the citizen in modern society.
- The power structures of society and their relationship with the state.
- The analysis of different ways of pursuing social and economic policy, with an emphasis on fiscal policy.
- The determination of their effects on the distribution of income and wealth.