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Dionysis Stamenitis was born in Giannitsa in 1968. He studied civil engineering in the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with postgraduate studies in “Environmental Policy, Education and Communication” in the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources of Democritus University of Thrace, specializing in the Energy Policy and Development.
Since 1995 he is a regular member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and since 1999 a civil engineer as a freelancer, specializing in Administration building Works and in Structural and Functional Rehabilitation of listed buildings. He was also a scientific committee member of the Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering and a member of the permanent committee of private works and building activity of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
On the 6th of May in 2012 he was elected for the first-time member of Parliament in the constituency of Pella in the general elections on behalf of Nea Demokratia and he was reelected in the elections on the 17th of June in 2012, on July 7th 2019, on May 21st 2023 and June 25th 2023. On the 27th of June in 2023 he assumed duties as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Rural Development and Food upon the decision of the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
George Makris, is S𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 Editor, Strategist & 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 with 29 years of experience.
He works as a senior editor covering agribusiness, EU policies focusing on CAP and the green deal and commodities for “Agricola”, a special edition for agribusiness issued by “Kathimerini” newspaper and “Powergame.gr”, one of the leading economic sites in Greek (“Parapolitika” group).
He has worked as a communication strategist and speechwriter in the Ministries of Economy and Finance, Development & Investments, Health and Welfare as well as in the Association of the Greek Regions. He has been also appointed as an Expert for the InvestEU program by the EU Committee of the Regions.
He holds the position of secretary general in the Greek Branch of European Network of Agricultural Journalists. He has also been a member of the Greek Association of Journalists since 1998.
He holds a master’s degree in International and European Economy from Athens University of Economy and Business.
Thanasis Tsoutsas was born in 1965 in Livadeia, Viotia and is the director of the seed sector of BASF HELLAS AEBE.
He started his career at the Hoechst Company in 1992 as Development Manager for KWS seeds, Nunhems vegetable seeds and Complesal Fertilizers in Northern Greece. In 1995 he became Product Manager of seeds and fertilizers at the successor company of Hoechst, Ag rEvo and later Aventis. After the acquisition of Aventis by Bayer in 2002, he became director of the seed sector of Bayer Hellas until the mid of 2018. From 2018 until today, he is the head of the seed division of BASF HELLAS for Southern Europe, with countries of responsibility Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, and Portugal for the following crops: Cotton, rice, sunflower and rapeseed. He was a member of the Greek organizing committee for the organization in Athens of the ISF (International Seed Federation) congress in May 2013 and served the Greek Seed Trade Association (SEPY) as Treasurer for many years. In the elections of June 2022, he was elected President of the Association. Thanasis Tsoutsas is a graduate of the Department of Agriculture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a specialization in the field of Crop Science and holds a master’s degree in business administration for Business Executives (MBA for Executive) from the Athens University of Economics. He is married to Katerina Bandi/Professor of French Language and Literature and has two daughters.
Sotiris Nikas is the bureau chief in Athens at Bloomberg News, coordinating coverage of Greek and Cypriot politics, economy and business.
Sotiris joined Bloomberg in 2017, after spending more than 15 years as a finance ministry correspondent at Kathimerini, Skai TV station, and To Vima, where he covered the entire saga of the country’s economic implosion. A father of two, Sotiris has studied Economics in Athens.
George Kremlis is the Chairman of the Greek Initiative at UN level on protecting cultural and natural heritage from climate change impacts.
He is a member of the Board of the European Public Law Organization and chairs its climate and circular economy Institute.
He is also a member of the environmental and social advisory council of the EBRD and also currently the Chair of the Bureau of the Espoo Convention, Chair of the MOPs in 2019, elected Chair for the MOPs in December 2020 and re-elected Chair for the period 2021-2023.
He is also the Chairman of the AmCham circular economy committee.
George Kremlis is Honorary Director of the European Commission (EC) and has acted in this capacity as Active Senior responsible for circular economy in the islands.
He was until recently special Advisor to the Greek Prime Minister on energy, climate, environment and circular economy issues.
Dr. Kouretas has a BSc in Pharmacy from University of Patras (Greece) 1985, PhD in Biochemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1989 (Greece) and Post-doc at Harvard Medical School from 1990-1992. Dr. Kouretas has been staff member in the University of Thessaly since 1996 and from 2007 is Professor of ‘Animal Physiology – Toxicology’ at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the University of Thessaly (Greece). He has co-authored 220 articles in peer-reviewed journals and about 100 invited lectures in national and international conferences. According to Google scholar Dr. Kouretas’ publications have been cited 10000 times and their ‘h-index’ is 55. In 2017 has been elected member of the European Commission Committee (Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging risks, SCHEER) and the same year (2017) President of the Hellenic Society of Toxicology and Director of the National Master Program in Toxicology.
He has founded the spin-off company FoodOxys aimed at developing bio functional nutrition. He is Associate Editor in the ‘Food & Chemical Toxicology’ (from 2015), ‘Toxicology Reports’ (from 2017) journals of Elsevier and Academic Editor in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity (from 2017) and Antioxidants (from 2018).
Has read Law in Athens University. Post-graduate studies in Law, Economics and International Relations and in Medieval History in Strasbourg and Cambridge. DEA European Law, DIHEE European Economy. Practiced business law and EU law. Consultant on E.U. topics to the Athens Daily Newspaper Publishers’ Association.
Member, then national representative, of the negotiating team for the Integrated Mediterranean Programmes. Counsellor to the Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs, Counsellor to the Minister for Culture, Chairman of the Committee of Cultural Affairs at the E.U. Council. Consultant to the Bank of Greece. Founding member and member of the Board of a number of European affairs institutes and reviews in Greece (EKEME, EKEM, EEK)
From 1972 onwards a journalist and then a columnist at the Greek political daily “TO VIMA” and at the economic and financial weekly “ECONOMICOS TACHYDROMOS”, specialising in macro-economic policy European affairs and foreign relations. Has also worked at “ELEFTHEROTYPIA” and “IMERISSIA” newspapers, managing editor of “ELEFHEROS TYPOS”.
Writes a bi-weekly column at “NAFTEMPORIKI”. Presently managing director of ECONOMIA Publishing, (“ECONOMIKI EPITHEORISSI”, “BUSINESS FILE”; writes a daily blog at economia.gr). Participates to the talk show “Evening Report” at ACTION 24 Channel.
He was the Spokesperson of the EPLO in Greece since 2011 and the Coordinator of the EP institutional campaign for the May 2019 European Elections.
As an official of the Council of the EU, he worked for the Ecofin during the creation of the Euro (1994-1998), for the enlargement negotiations (1998-2003), for the financial perspectives in the Secretary General Private Office (2003-2004) and for the Foreign Affairs Council on Middle East and Northern Africa issues (2011).
He was Secretary General for the European Social Fund in the Greek Ministry of Employment (2006-2009) and Managing Director of the Hellenic Sugar Industry (2004-2006).
He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Reading, UK.
Professor Petteri Taalas is the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nation’s specialized agency on weather, climate, and water. A meteorologist by training, Professor Taalas advises the United Nations Secretary-General on climate change mitigation and adaptation. He is a leading advocate for increased investment in securing reliable data from all over the world for global, regional, and national forecasts
and climate projections. And he is spearheading a drive to ensure everyone on Earth is protected by early warning systems against increasingly extreme weather and climate change. Before joining WMO he was Director General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute