Vassilis C. Karamitsanis was born in Athens in 1976. After graduating from Athens College, he studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He later earned postgraduate degrees from the University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands; the University of Hamburg, Germany; and Aix-Marseille III University, France. He has been an attorney-at-law licensed by the Athens Bar since 2001. Since 2008, he has served as president of ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival, and from 2015 to 2023 he was president of ASIFA HELLAS – Hellenic Animation Association. In 2018, he was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and from 2018 to 2019 he chaired the board of the Greek National Opera. Since 2025, he has been secretary general of CIFEJ – International Center of Films for Children and Young People.