ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8074-7814 Lida Dimitriadou is a project manager and researcher at ATHENA RC, Sustainable Development Unit. She holds a PhD in Environmental Health and Climate Change from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, an M.Sc. in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment from the University College London (UCL), an M.Sc. in …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3690-0582 Stavroula Samara is a licensed Psychologist specialized in research developmental psychology. She holds a BSc and MA degrees from the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Ontario, Canada) with specialization in self-evaluation methods in teaching. She has conducted research for the Ontario Board of Education on Transition …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0816-0140 Anna Triantafyllidou is a postdoctoral researcher at ATHENA RC, working on various projects and initiatives related to climate change adaptation and regional development. She holds a Ph.D. in Energy Economics from the Department of Economics at the International Hellenic University, an M.Sc. in Applied Economics and Data Analysis from the University of …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3597-1187 Dr. Georgios Feretzakis serves as an Adjunct Faculty Member and Researcher at the Hellenic Open University’s School of Science and Technology. In addition, he holds a position as a contract researcher at the Research Laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is also affiliated …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9575-5489 Anastasia Litina is an Assistant Professor at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. She is also an Extramural Research Fellow at the University of Luxembourg. She received her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Macedonia, visited Brown University for a semester and worked at the University of Luxembourg as a …
Ioannis Marnelis joined the AE4RIA communication team in September 2023, bringing over a decade of experience from the Goulandris Natural History Museum, where he serves as Public Relations Manager. He has played a key role in the creation and communication of numerous exhibitions and manages the Museum’s social media presence while acting as the media …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9258-2442 Lambros Lois holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Ioannina and he currently pursuing his graduate studies in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens MBA program. He has practical experience as an Assistant Accountant, where he handled tasks such as file organization, accounting book updates, financial record maintenance, …
Angelika Mexia is a Sociologist at the University of Peloponnese, Department of Social and Educational Policy. She received her MScEd in Educational Policy and Management specializing in Mentoring and Coaching in Education from the University of Peloponnese. After completing her basic studies she worked as a researcher in Erasmus+ programs as well as as an …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0289-5157 Chatzigiannakou Maria Angeliki is a Post- Doctoral researcher at Athens University of Economics and Business, involved currently in the IMPETUS, Intergraded Assessment Modelling, and FABLE working groups. She received her PhD in Engineering Science with Specialization in Science of Electricity from Uppsala University. Her PhD dissertation title is “Offshore deployments of marine …
Dr Georgina Spyres (F) received her doctorate from the Univ. of Plymouth, UK for her research on the «Biogeochemical Cycling of Carbon at the North Atlantic Ocean Margin» with an EU DGXII FP6 scholarship. She has worked in prestigious academic and research centres in the UK, USA, The Netherlands, Israel, Spain and Greece on international programs …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2447-6332 Alina Velias has recently completed a PhD in Economics, specialising in behavioural and experimental aspects of applied microeconomics. Her interests are in non-monetary motives (such as altruism) and aspects (subjective wellbeing, social capital) of human welfare – and the related policy implications. Her first degree is a BSc Philosophy and Economics (LSE), …
Dr. Paolo Mammola is currently working at the Italian Ministry of University and Research at the National RRF Task Force. In addition, he teaches Roman Law at the LUISS ‘Guido Carli” University of Rome, and previously he was teaching Commercial Law at the University of Naples. He also participates the SDSN Senior Working Group as an Expert in Corporate …
Professor Dr. Phoebe Koundouri is a world-renowned pioneer in innovative, human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for the sustainable interaction between nature, society, and the economy. She is included in the Stanford University list of top 2% world scientists and is a member of the Nominating Committee for the Nobel Prize in Economics. She is a Professor in Economics at the School …
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7848-0313 Konstantinos Dellis is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at ATHENA RC, currently working on the AWESOME project. He holds a PhD from the University of Piraeus Department of Economics on Endogenous Growth and Knowledge Diffusion, a Msc. in Econometrics and a Msc. in Development Economics from the University of Manchester and a Bsc. in …
Ian Bateman is an environmental economist with a wide array of research interests. These revolve around the issue of ensuring sustainable wellbeing through the integration of natural and social science knowledge within decision making and policy. Particular interests lie in the fields of quantitative analysis, integrated modelling and the valuation of non-market benefits and costs. …
Partha Dasgupta, was born in Dhaka (at that time in India) and educated in Varanasi (Matriculation 1958 from Rajghat Besant School), Delhi (B.Sc. Hons, in Physics, 1962, University of Delhi), and Cambridge (B.A. Hons. in Mathematics, 1965, and Ph.D. in Economics, 1968) at the University of Cambridge). He is the son of the noted economist …
Christos S. Zerefos is Secretary General, Academy of Athens; Climate Envoy for Greece; Head, Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, Academy of Athens; Professor Emeritus Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, University of Athens. Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the Universities of Athens, Thessaloniki, Visiting Professor, Universities of Minnesota and Boston. Samarbeidspartnere (Scientific Collaborator), University of Oslo. …
Yannis Ioannidis (Ph.D., Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley; MSc, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University; Diploma, Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens) is the President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as well as an Associated Faculty at the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center, where he also served …
Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Chair of the Lancet COVID19 Commission, Co-Chair of the UN Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner …
Konstantinos Ziliaskopoulos has an Integrated Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a Marie Curie fellow with the software company Singular Logic and is currently pursuing an MSc degree in the interinstitutional post-graduate program by the National Center for Social Research and U. of Peloponese on …
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