Athanasios Moulakis (Greek: Αθανάσιος Μουλάκης; July 11, 1945 – July 18, 2015) was President Emeritus of the American University of Iraq - Sulaimani (AUI-S) and a former Acting President and Chief Academic Officer, Professor of Government at the American University of Afghanistan.
After engagements at UCSD, Harvard, and St. John's College he was named Herbst Professor of Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Moulakis has held other academic and administrative assignments at European and North American colleges, institutes, and universities.
(magna cum laude) degree from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Moulakis has published and lectured in five languages.
He has received numerous academic honors and awards, including the American Association of Colleges and Universities’ prize for best book on liberal education.