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Pavlos Mylonas was appointed Chief Executive Officer of National Bank of Greece in July 2018. He joined NBG in 2000 and served, inter alia, as Deputy CEO, CRO and Head of Strategy. He worked on the staff of the OECD from 1995 to 2000, and at the International Monetary Fund from 1987 to 1995. In the years 1985-1987, he was visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics in Boston University. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics-Economics (Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Brown University, as well as a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. 

Andreas Papandreou is a Professor in the Economics Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Prof. Papandreou has 30 years of academic experience in various Universities, including University College London and Harvard. His research and published work are mostly in the fields of environmental economics, institutional economics, political economy and welfare economics. He is alternate Head of the Department of Economics and Director of the Section of Political Economy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a Research Associate of the International Center of Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8). He is the Director of the Political Economy of Sustainable Development Lab (PESD) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The Lab has also established the Athens Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Social Sciences Unit (ABEESS) to undertake, inter alia, experimental research relating to sustainable development. He is Co-chair of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Greece (SDSN Greece).

Dr Alexandros Charalambides is a Mechanical Engineering graduate and holds a PhD from Imperial College London. His PhD project was funded by Honda R & D Co, Ltd of Japan. He has worked at Imperial College London, at the University of Tokyo and on his return to Cyprus, at the Energy Service of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism. In 2009, he was appointed at the Department of Environmental Science and Technology and his research interests lie in the fields of solar energy, algal biofuel production and energy saving in buildings. His dynamism and passion for sustainable development and for developing ideas and young talent are what drove him to seek out like-minded individuals and create Chrysalis LEAP, the first accelerator in Cyprus, focusing on cleantech and ENERMAP, an EU-funded spin-out from the University.

Kostis Hatzidakis is a Greek politician from the New Democracy party. He currently serves as the Minister for the Environment and Energy in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He was elected President of the Youth Organisation of New Democracy (ONNED), serving from 1992 to 1994. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for New Democracy in the European elections of 1994, 1999 and 2004. In the 2007 Greek legislative election, he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament for the Athens B constituency and consequently resigned from the European Parliament. He served as Minister for Transport and Communications from 2007 to 2009 and then as Minister for Development in 2009. 

Andrei Geica is the Chief Policy & Impact Officer of Sporos Platform, focusing on policies to materialise the Circular Transition of SMEs. He monitors policy developments at national and European level to inform the investment strategy and assists portfolio firms by coordinating the provision of dedicated consultancy services on circular business models. Andrei Geica is an EU policy expert with international experience, advising companies on how to inform their strategies for future-proof decision-making based on a constant monitoring of all EU policy areas covering major industrial sectors. With direct experience from the European Parliament, followed by 2 years of Policy Monitoring Consultant in the private sector in one of the largest Parliamentary legislative monitoring consultancies in Brussels, he decided to apply this knowledge in the underserved South-East European region by providing tailored policy monitoring in Greece, following more than 5.000 sources of information on a daily basis. Using this broad expertise, Andrei instructs companies on how to avoid silo mentalities, how to exit path dependencies, and how to keep up with the numerous changes and evolutions that happen at both European and global scale, thus directly contributing to the competitiveness and the internationalisation of Greek businesses. These key insights into the policy process and global trends led to the establishment of Sporos Circular Solutions, of which he is Managing Partner. Andrei holds a BSc in Political Science and International Relations (Cum Laude) at the University of Parma, Italy and an MSc in Politics and Government in the European Union (Distinction) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.