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Ramon
Armengol completed his studies in Law from the Lleida University and has taken
several courses regarding cooperative managing (Business School ESADE
2009/2010). His work aims to promote cooperatives activities as governance, engaging
young farmers to the farm activity, gender policies, sustainability, rural
development, international cooperation. He is the Chairman of the Pigmeat
Board of Spanish Agrifood Cooperatives and a member of the COPA-COGECA Pigmeat
Working Party. Member of the Board of the Spanish Pigmeat Interbranch
Organization INTERPORC, an organization which represents farmers, cooperatives,
traders and industries of the Spanish pigmeat sector focusing in innovation,
communication and promotion activities being a model for the rest of the
interbranch organization in Spain. He is also a Member of the Spanish
Interbranch Council (representing Spanish Agrifood Cooperatives), which was set
up by Spanish Ministry to discuss the improvement of agrifood organisations
collaboration through interbranch organisation. Mr. Armengol is Member of the
Board of the Agrifood Cooperative d’Ivars (Lleida, Spain), which has 3.616 farmers members
with a turnover of about €200M, Member of the Board of the
Regional Cooperative Federation of Catalunya with 321 agrifood cooperatives in
this region with 22.000 farmers members and Member of the Board of the Spanish
Agrifood Cooperatives - an organisation that represents the agrifood
cooperatives in Spain with € 26 billion of turnover and with 1 million of
members. Mr.
Armengol has been managing a pig
meat livestock farm since he was 20 years old, currently producing 2.500 tons
of pig meat and employing 8 people. He speaks Spanish, Catalan, French
and English. He was born in Lleida, Spain, he is married and has 3 children.
Born in 1961 at Cantal, France by
famer parents activists in the Catholic Agricultural Youth (Jeunesse Agricole
Catholique - JAC), Christiane Lambert chose the farmer’s profession very early:
At 19 after obtaining a Certificate of Senior Technologists (Brevet de
technicien supérieur - BTS) in the agricultural sector, she started working in
a milk and pork meat production farm. She has been the President of the Young
Farmers’ Center (CCJA) of Massiac (1981-1984) and then Vice-President of the
Young Farmers’ Center (CDJA) of Cantal (1982-1988). She was the first President
of the Regional Cetner for Young Farmers (CRJA) of Auvergne in 1986. Today Christiane
and her husband Thierry, are farmers of 106 hectares of corn, wheat, barley,
pea and oilseed rape, crops targeted for the breeding of the Naisseur
Engraisseur pigs, with 230 sows and 3 employees. As the first woman President of
the National Center of Young Farmers (CNJA), between 1994 and 1998, her activities
were characterized by the National Map for the setup of young farmers which
applied in the Regions, by the application of multifunctionality and the
opening to concerns related to the environment and the locality. She has been the
president of FDSEA of Maine-et-Loire between 2001 and 2011, Secretary General
of FRSEA of Pays de la Loire from 2001 to 2014 and Office Member of the
Regional Chamber of Agriculture of Pays de la Loire. Sha has been the administrator
of the National Federation of Agricultural Trade Unions (Fédération Nationale
des Syndicats d’Exploitants Agricoles - FNSEA) since March 2002, member of the
Board of Directors since 2005, first Vice-President since December 2010 until
April 2017, Vice-President of the Environment Committee, President of the
Agrifood Chain Committee and responsible for the Sustainable Development and
Society Pillar. She is the first female elected President of FNSEA, on 13 April
2017. Christiane LAMBERT was the President of the FARRE Network (a forum for the
rational agriculture with respect to the environment) from 1999 to 2005 and
President of the Lifelong Learning Fund for Farmers (VIVEA).
Mr. Christodoulos Antoniadis is a
Management Advisor for Commercial and Agricultural Banking of Piraeus Bank
since May 2015.
Until then he served as the
Deputy CEO of Piraeus Bank, responsible for Commercial Banking and at the same
time he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Group. In the past he
was Member of the Board of Directors of the bank and served all its critical
sectors having at times the responsibility of the areas of Loans, Network,
Large Enterprises, Green Entrepreneurship, Loan Restructuring, supervision and
special operation of the Bank’s agricultural policy focusing on the Contractual
Agriculture while at the same time he was supervising subsidiaries «PIRAEUS
LEASING S.A.», «PIRAEUS FACTORING S.A.» and «ETVA VI.PE. S.A.».
He has been working for Piraeus Bank since 1992, and previously he has worked for the Commercial Bank for 19 years. He has been member of the Board of Directors of companies of interest to the Bank, as well as of others.
He was born in 1955 in
Aidonochori Serron and he is a graduate of the Law Department of the School of
Law and Financial Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well
as a graduate of the Department, with specialization in Public Law. He is married and he has two children.
Mr. George Handjinicolaou is Chairman, non-executive
member, of the Board of Directors of Piraeus Bank, and serves as Chairman of
the Board of Directors of Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX). He is also Chairman of
the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, a non-profit foundation. Mr. Handjinicolaou has also been elected Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Hellenic Bank Association, the non-profit legal entity that
represents Greek and foreign credit institutions operating in Greece.
Mr. Handjinicolaou received his PhD in Finance from
the graduate school of business at New York University, where he also earned his MBA, and
holds a BS degree from the Law School at the University of Athens, Greece.
His career in the financial services sector spans over 35 years, the vast majority of which was spent at global financial institutions based in London and New York.
Mr.
Handjinicolaou held the position of Deputy CEO of the International Swaps and
Derivatives Association (ISDA) in London for 6 years (2011-16), where he was
also a member of the Board of Directors. Previously and for over 25 years, he
held senior management positions in the derivatives and fixed income markets at
several global financial institutions including Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Bank
of America, Merrill Lynch and UBS in London and New York, while he started his
career at the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Mr. Handjinicolaou has also leadership experience in Greece from his
roles as CEO of TBANK and as Vice Chairman of the Greek Capital Market
Commission.
Svetlana Edmeades is a Senior Agriculture Economist in the World Bank. She is currently engaged in analytical and advisory work on agriculture and rural development in the EU countries and investment operations in the Western Balkans. In Greece, she leads the sector work between the Ministry of Rural Development and Food and the World Bank - the Strategic Planning for Agriculture and Rural Transformation and Action (SPARTA). Svetlana holds a PhD in Agriculture and Natural Resource Economics and before joining the World Bank in 2006 she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington DC.
Mr. Alikviadis Alexandrou is an executive of Piraeus Bank since 2000, and he is currently General Manager for the Agribusiness Sector, a part of the Corporate & Investment Directorate General. He is responsible for the Development of Retail Agricultural Banking, the Contract Banking as well as the Centers of Agricultural Businesses and Organizations. He started his career at the National Bank of Greece, continuing his professional path at the ABN AMRO BANK and then at PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS. He was born in 1964 in Athens and he holds a BSc from the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a MSc on the Finance Science from the University of Southampton. He is married and has three children.
Makis Voridis
was born in
In 1992 he
served in the Army, as a Cadet Reserve Officer of Artillery. He has been
practicing Law in Athens for the last 30 years. He is married to Danai
Michelakou, pediatrician and they have two children. In September 2007 he was
elected for the first time as a member of Greek Parliament and is being re-elected
until today. In November 2011, he was appointed as Minister of Infrastructure,
Transport and public transportation Networks, during the coalition Government
of political parties PASOK-NEW DEMOCRACY-LAOS, under Prime Minister Loukas
Papadimos.
From 2012 until
2014 he was the Parliamentary Representative of Political Party “New
Democracy”.
In June 2013 he
was assigned as President of the Political Committee of the Parliamentary
Assembly of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
In June 2014 he
was appointed Minister of Health by Prime Minister Antonios Samaras.
In January 2016,
the President of political Party “New Democracy”, appointed him as Divisional Director of
Internal Affairs.
Ιn July 2017 he was elected
President of the Special Committee on
Countering Terrorism the Parliament Assembly of
OSCE.
In July 7th 2019
he was appointed Minister of Rural Development & Food by Prime Minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Born in Larissa on 10-01-1972, married, with a son, he
studied at the Law School of AUTh. He is an active and combative Lawyer at the
Supreme Court of Larissa. Since 2005 he has been actively involved in the
consumer movement as an elected president of Consumer Institute (IN.KA.) of
Thessaly, as a member of the Board of Hellenic Food Authority (EFET), and as Vice
President of the National Consumer and Market Council (ESKA). In 2008 and 2009
he participated in the Standing Committee on Trade of the Hellenic Parliament
as a representative of consumer organizations for bills concerning consumers.
In January 2015, he was elected Member of Hellenic Parliament for Larissa prefecture
and was re-elected in September 2015 (Political Party ANEL). He was Deputy
Minister of Rural Development and Food from November 2016 until July 2019. In
July 2019, he was elected Member of Hellenic Parliament for Larissa prefecture (Political
Party SYRIZA). He served as Deputy Head of SYRIZA division for rural development.
Deputy Head of the party for agricultural issues in
general.
Ioannis Mavroudis is the CEO of GAIA EPICHEIREIN since 2018. A founding member and shareholder of NEUROPUBLIC S.A., he was the CEO of NEUROPUBLIC from 2003 - when the company was founded - until 2018. Ioannis Mavroudis was born in Piraeus. He studied Management in the American College of Greece and he holds a BSc in Master Science, Major in Management. He also holds a MSc. “Global Master In Management”. Between 1998 and 2003 he was the Export Manager of Emporiki Group, being responsible for the development of the company’s exports network in 26 countries. He has a long experience in the informatics sector, having participated in the implementation of several big budget projects, as well as significant specialization in projects related to the modernization of the primary sector.He is a member of the Alumni Association of the American College of Greece, AWS, CEO CLUB and until 2014 he was a member of the Digital Governance Committee of SEPE – the Federation of Hellenic Information Technology & Communications’ Enterprises. He speaks English, German and Spanish. He is married and has a son and a daughter.
Tassos Haniotis is Director for "Strategy,
Simplification and Policy Analysis" in the DG for Agriculture and Rural
development of the European Commission. During his 30-year career in the
European Commission he has also held posts as Acting Director for Direct
Payments, Head of Unit in the Agricultural Policy Analysis and Perspectives
Unit and the Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis Unit in DG AGRI, as Deputy Head
of Cabinet of former European Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler, and
as Agricultural Counsellor in the European Commission’s Delegation in the US.
Tassos holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in
Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia in the U.S., and a B.A.
in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business in his native
Greece, and was a visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Agricultural
Studies, Wye College, University of London.
A member of the Executive of the
International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium during 2012-14, Tassos
currently represents the European Commission in the G20's Rapid Response Forum,
which he will Chair in 2020-21.
Director, MSc Agricultural Science - Dep. Crop & Environmental Innovation; SEGES
Head of Crop Innovation in SEGES since 2014. SEGES is a National Research an Innovation Center owned by The Danish Agriculture & Food Council and thus the Danish farmers. SEGES has more than 600 employees of witch 75 work in the Dep. Crop & Environmental Innovation. We do innovation, research - and develop solutions within the crop production area and the environmental impact of crop production.
Giannis Maniatis holds a diploma in Rural and
Surveying Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and a
PhD in Engineering. Since 1995, he was Associate Professor of the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki and since 2002 he is an Associate Professor of the
University of Piraeus. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of Bonn, Institute
of Financial Geography. Director of the Postgraduate Program “Climate Crisis
and Information and Communication Technologies”, and Director of the Laboratory
“Systems and Policies of Environment and Energy”.
Political and Societal Activity
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MP of Argolida (2014 – 2019)
-
Minister and Undersecretary of
Environment, Energy and Climate Change (2009 – 2015)
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Secretary General of the
Ministry of Transport and Communications (1998 – 2001).
Academic Activity
He has taught at the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, the University of Bonn and the University of Piraeus, both Undergraduate
and Postgraduate courses:
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Environmental Mentoring and
Climate Change
-
Geographic Information
Systems (G.I.S.)
-
Natural Resources and
Integrated Development
-
Structural Policies of the
European Union
-
Land Uses and Values
-
Systems and Policies of
Environment and Energy
- Digital Entrepreneurship and management of Technological Innovation
Manos Sdrakas is a graduate of the Department of Agriculture, School of Geotechnical Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2001 he started working as an agronomist and in 2005 he founded Novaplan, a company providing agricultural advisory services and developing systems for Integrated Management (AGRO, GLOBALGAP, TN), quality (ISO 9001), food safety (ISO 22000, IFS, BRC), work safety and ethics (ISO 18001, SEDEX, GRASP), and environment (ISO 14001). He is a certified agricultural advisor and has a long experience as an agricultural advisor. He has worked as a trainer of the geotechnical Chamber of Greece on topics of Integrated Management application and other international standards. He has attended a high number of seminars on topics of certification and integrated management.
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Ioannis Chaniotakis is a Senior Director of the
Agricultural Sector Operations Development at Piraeus Bank. He holds a PhD in
Business Management, a MSc. in Agricultural Economics specialized in the
Marketing of Agricultural Products and Food, and a Bachelor in Agronomy, with
specialization in Agricultural Economics. He has a professional experience of more than
25 years in the banking sector, in the fields of Marketing, Retail and
Agricultural Banking. He has a significant experience in the development of new
banking products, as well as on topics regarding the development and the
financing of the agricultural sector and value chains. He has also participated in research projects
and has taught as a visiting professor on topics related to marketing, in both
post-graduate and under-graduate programmes of Greek universities. His research
work has been published in international academic journals and presented in
international conferences.
He is a graduate of the
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical
University of Athens and holds a PhD from the same institution. He was the
co-founder and member of two Greek technology companies that follow until today
their successful path. Facilitating the technological tools of informatics and
the methodology of a mechanic, he has designed and developed systems for
telecommunications, the defense industry, the operational processes, the
knowledge management and the agricultural automations. He is currently the President
of NEUROPUBLIC S.A., focusing on the Research and Innovation of Technologies. As
NEUROPUBLIC’s President he has significantly contributed to the conception, the
design and the implementation of information and technology solutions, making
the company one of the most dynamic and reliable in the field of innovative
technologies, both in Greece and abroad.
Since 2017, Mr. Belcapo is the national Technical Manager of
Coldiretti’s* Farmers’ Support Centers, responsible for the
organization and coordination of the 1,400 employees of 623 local offices all over the country, as
well as for liaising with the Italian national and regional paying agencies, in
the context of the processes for the allocation of EU and national aids.
Since 2013 he is the responsible of Coldiretti’s Farmers’
Support Centers’ in terms of organic farming activities in the context of the Rural
Development Programme (RDP), namely on the Organics Information System (S.I.B.)
He is an active member of the Planning Committee on Risk
Management in Agriculture, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
Policies (DEPARTMENT OF EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL POLICIES AND RURAL
DEVELOPMENT).
Since 2018, he is Coldiretti’s responsible for the
implementation of “satellite monitoring”, in collaboration with the AGEA
Paying Agency, according to Article 40bis of EC 746/2018 Regulation.
Since 2019 he represents Coldiretti’s Farmers’ Support
Centers in the NIVA "New IACS Vision In
Action" project, which aims to identify solutions for the transformation
of IACS in a tool that facilitates the management and access of European farmers to the aids of the future CAP.
In 2007 he was the expert participating on behalf of Italy
in the study regarding the “administrative burdens resulting from the CAP
reform in Italy”, which was ordered by the Directorate General for Agriculture
and Rural Development of the European Commission.
*With one million members, Coldiretti is the largest agricultural organization of Italy and represents the agricultural entrepreneurs of the country at national and international level.
Kostas Giannopoulos was born on November 30th, 1976.
He has a diploma in Economics from the faculty of Law and Economic Sciences of
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Career:
▪ Economics department of SOCOTAB S.A. (summer of 2003)
▪ Economics department of EAS Kilkis as cooperation
and insurances manager (April 2006-October 2007)
▪ Vice-president of OPEKEPE (Subsides Organization of
Agriculture Development Ministry) (October 2007 until March 2010)
▪ Deputy president of OPEKEPE (September 2009-March
2010)
▪ General manager of EASTH SA (April 2010-today).
Activities / Hobbies / Honors:
▪ Professional
footballer 1998-2000 (Kilkisiakos F.C.)
▪ Member of
the cultural committee of Gallikos City (2002-2006)
▪ Founding
committee member of the union of Thracian associations of Kilkis State.
▪ President of
the cultural association EXEDOROS
▪ Elected
departmental advisor at the prefectural elections of 2006
▪ President of
the culture, sports and youth organization of the prefecture of Kilkis
(2006-2010)
▪ Chairman of the tourism promotion
and development of Kilkis (2006-2010)
▪ Kilkis city
board president (November 2009-December 2010)
▪ Elected
councilor Kilkis in the elections of October 2010
▪ City council
president Kilkis (January 2013-August 2014)
▪ Vice
president of development Kilkis (ANKI) from January 2013 to August 2014.
▪ Candidate
for vice district commissioner of Kilkis at the elections in May 2014, elected
regional councilor
Mr Giannopoulos is married and has two children. He speaks Greek and English.
For the last 20 years, Mr. Dimitris
Kapnias has been specialized in the field of geoinformatics. In the long path
of his professional activity he has worked in positions of responsibility and
as a technical advisor in the private sector and for International
Organizations. Following his professional experience as a Scientific Officer
(DG_JRC) in the Department of agricultural policy of the European Commission,
his current position as a Senior Executive of GAIA EPICHEIREIN S.A. focuses on
ICT applications and services in the agricultural sector. Since 2014, his basic responsibility is the management of the contract regarding
the «Supporting farmers to complete and submit the Integrated Aid Application to
IACS» in the context of the agricultural aids of the European Union. He is also
working on the analysis of new geoinformatics applications and services in
agriculture. In this context, he is in charge of monitoring the European legislation
regarding the agricultural aids and the activities regarding the rural
development representing the company in international fora. He also participates
in business programmes and contributes to the preparation of proposals of
project as well as in the development of studies for achieving the strategic
goals of the company.
I work in the Unit of Implementation Support and IACS within the European Commission’s Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development. Responsible for a team within the Unit, I provide support to Member States in the implementation of Direct Payments schemes, in particular as regards IACS, and in the facilitation of the digitization and use of new technologies in the administration of agricultural policy. Actively involved in the CAP reform, I provide support to Member States in their preparation of the future CAP Strategic Plans.I obtained the Biology degree from the University of Athens in 2007 and the Master and PHD degrees in Biology from the University of Grenoble in France in 2012. I joined the European Commission in 2017, where, since 2018 I work in the IACS Unit in the Directorate of Sustainability and Income Support.
Profession: Team Leader – Implementation Support - Unit of Implementation Support and IACS - Directorate of Sustainability and Income Support - DG AGRI
John Pazios is the General Manager of the Messinia Union Agricultural Cooperative & CEO of Agricultural Union S.A. – Agricultural Advisory Services. He has managed the IACS Project between 2016 and 2020, serving an average of 23.000 producers per year, operating a network of 23 Farmers’ Service Centers and employing a staff consisting of about 60-80 employees. He is 36 years old, and holds a BSc in Geography from the University of the Aegean, Mytilene Campus. He has worked as a Company Advisor in a company that he holds until today, and as an external associate of an Information Systems Company. Mr. Pazios is responsible for the operation of the Apiculture Center of Peloponnese, based in Kalamata. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the SUSTAINOLIVE project and member of the Local Management team of the CLLD/LEADER 2014 – 2020 project in Messinia. He is also a member of the Audit Committee of the Hellenic Blockchain Node and the Organizing Committee of Innovation Hackathons (Crowdhackathon). Last, he is responsible of OPENTOURISM Kalamata for the Non-Profit Laboratory of Business Culture Mataroa.org
President
of Cajamar Caja Rural*.
Born
in Villalba (Lugo), he is an agronomist and has a master's degree in European
Communities from the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid.
In 1992 he joined the Confederación de Cooperativas Agroalimentarias de España, a year later he moved to Brussels and since 1996 he was director of the Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España office in Brussels. During that period he was also the administrator of CCAE Calidad and held various positions of responsibility in the European Confederation of Agricultural Cooperatives (COGEGA), an organization of which he was appointed president in 1993.
In 2000 he returned to Madrid when he was appointed General Director of Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España, a responsibility he held for 15 years.
In 2014 he joined the Board of Directors of Banco de Crédito Cooperativo, being a member of its Executive Committee, chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee. In 2016 he was elected president of Cajamar, a responsibility he carries out after being re-elected by the General Assembly held on June 25, 2020.
*Cajamar is the leading rural savings bank and the lending cooperative in Spain. It has 1.4 million partners and 3.4 million customers. It’s integrated and is the first shareholder of Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar, leader of Spanish cooperative banking. Grupo Cajamar has more than 1.100 branches and agencies, and more than 5.500 employees and agents.
He was born on 24/8/1970 in Thessaloniki. In 1988 he graduated from the “German School” of Thessaloniki and in 1992 he obtained an MSc on “Production and Management Engineering” from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK. He fluently speaks English (Proficiency) and German (Abitur) and has advanced knowledge of French and Spanish. He is the Executive Vice President of the «Redestos – Efthymiadis Agrotechnology Group” Board of Directors, and CEO of various companies of the Efthymiadis Group, which for the last 80 years is actively engaged in agrifood (inputs and supplies, laboratory quality analyses of food and beverages, production and sales of fresh agricultural products) in Greece, Balkans and many more countries. Since 1998 he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Greek Seed Trade Association (EEPES), and since February 2016 he holds the position of the President. Since 2005 he is also a member of the Board of the Federation of Industries of Greece and since 2009 he is also a member of its 7-member Management Committee. Last, since October 2016 he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Farming School of Thessaloniki. He is married to the lawyer Katerina Gkratziou, they have two boys and live in Thessaloniki.
George Zalides is a graduate of the Department
of Agriculture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with PhD studies at
the Department of Soil Science and postdoctoral studies at the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering of the Michigan State University (USA).
He is the Director of the Laboratory
‘’Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy and Geographic Information Systems’, Professor
of Soil Pollution and Degradation, Department of Agriculture of the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, and Director of the Interbalkan Environment Center (i-BEC) since
2007. In the positions of responsibility that he held until today he has
applied standards and Total Quality Management principles with validated administrative
results.
His research interests focus on topics
such as the use of Earth Observation data for the provision of related services, both in the sectors of
social benefit of GEO (Group on Earth Observation), and in the Sustainability
Goals of the United Nations, implementing the corresponding services with the
use of protocols and standardized methodologies of GEO, the development of
corresponding spectral libraries, necessary for the monitoring and management
of agricultural and natural ecosystems, based on the NEXUS approach (safety of
food, water, energy and public health). In addition, his research activities apply
to the circular economy sector, through the development of protocols for carbon
footprint in the agrifood sector, composting, and the cultivation of microweeds
at large scale.
His involvement in the total quality management in
University and research institutes, as well as know-how transfer organizations,
in all the administrative positions that he has served at national and
international level, including the Council of the Authority of Quality
Assurance and Certification in Higher Education, has provided him with the
administrative experience and the skills to manage such Institutes and
Organizations. He has served as special expert and national representative in
international committees, as well as member of national and international
committees and councils, and visiting Professor at US Universities. His vision is the increase of competitiveness
and the economic development, through the transformation of scientific knowledge
in politic, through the involvement of academic and research institutes, and
know-how transfer organizations with SMEs, for the efficient transfer of
know-how and finding the appropriate solutions, with assurance and
certification of all processes involved.
Konstantinos Kiltidis was born in
the Kilkis Prefecture on February 7 1956.
He graduated from the Medical School
of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and specialized as a Family General
Doctor at the Regional Hospital of Thessaloniki “G. Papanikolaou”. He is fluent
in French and has served as a Reserve Health Officer between 1981and 1983.
He worked as a doctor at the Health
Center of Alexandreia Imathias between 1986 and 2000, reaching the position of Director
of the National Health System. He also served as the President of the General
Hospital of Kilkis between 1991 and 1993.
He was elected a MP of Kilkis
Prefecture between 2000 and 2012. In 2007, he was appointed by the Prime Minister
Konstantinos Karamanlis as Undersecretary of Rural Development and Food, a
position he held until 2009.
He served as an advisor of the 4th
Administrative Health Region of Macedonia-Thrace between 2012 and 2016.
He was the Vice-President of the Hellenic
Society of General / Family Medicine between 1986 and 1991, Chairman of the Greek
Parliament’s Inter-Party Committee against drugs between 2004 and 2007 and
member of various Parliamentary Committees.
From September 2016 until today, he is the President of the Agrifood Partnershio of the Central Macedonia Region, with the participation of 18 Scientific, Professional, Local Government Organizations of the Central Macedonia Region.
