UN SDSN - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS NETWORK 

In August 2012, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) was launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the scope to mobilize scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and the private sector in support of sustainable development problem solving at local, national, and global scales. The SDSN aims to accelerate joint learning and help to overcome the compartmentalization of technical and policy work by promoting integrated approaches to advance solutions in sustainable development and to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS NETWORK - GREECE

The SDSN is building a network of universities, research centers, and other knowledge institutions. Members are organized around National or Regional SDSNs to promote Solutions Initiatives, develop educational materials for sustainable development, and contribute to setting the post-2015 agenda.

The Greek SDSN has been included in the SDSN network and it will cooperate with neighboring countries, which are also members of the network, aiming to contribute to achieving the goals of the SDSN network . Co-hosts of the Greek SDSN will be the International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8) and the Centre for Research on the Political Economy of Sustainable Development of the University of Athens. The executive council will be responsible for formulating the Greek Leadership Council that will consist of politicians, entrepreneurs, academics and representatives of the civil society. All members of the councils will be chosen upon recognition of their contribution towards fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations for 2030.

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 SDSN GREECE 

Hosting Institutions

Centre for Research on the Political Economy of Sustainable Development

Executive Council

Project Managers

Manager SDSN Greece
Klea Morianou

Assistant Manager SDSN Greece
Ioannis Souliotis

Youth SDSN Greece
Amerissa Giannouli

E-Library
Konstantina Blatsou
Christina Christoforou Livani
Ermina Sokou

SDSN National & Regional Networks

 

Initial Leadership Council

Policy-Making & Politics

Kostas Bakoyannis

Kostas Bakoyannis is a Greek politician. Having served as mayor of Central Greek town of Karpenisi, he was popularly elected Regional governor of Central Greece in the 2014 region election. He studied history and International Relations at Brown University and graduated from Harvard with a Master of Public Administration.

Stavros Dimas

Stavros Dimas is a Greek politician who was European Commissioner for the Environment from 2004 to 2009. From November 2011 to May 2012, he served in the government of Greece as Minister for Foreign Affairs. He studied law at the University of Athens and went on to earn a Master of Laws from New York University.

Nikiforos Diamantouros

Nikiforos Diamantouros is a Greek academic who was the first National Ombudsman of Greece from 1998 to 2003 and has been Ombudsman for the European Union from April 2003 to October 2013. He was re-elected as European Ombudsman in 2005 and again in 2010. In 1963 Diamandouros graduated Indiana University with a B.A. He then attended Columbia University, New York City, where he was awarded an M.A. in 1965, an M.Phil in 1969 and a Ph.D in 1972. From 1973 to 1978 he held a research position at Columbia University and a teaching post at the State University of New York.

Maria Damanaki

Maria Damanaki is a Greek politician and the Global Managing Director for Oceans at The Nature Conservancy. She leads a global team focused on how the world manages its oceans, including sustainable fisheries management, large-scale protection and restoration of coral reefs and other ecosystems, coastal resilience, and mapping and quantification of the full value of the world’s oceans to people. She most recently served for four years as European Union Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. She has graduated from the National Technical University of Athens with a degree in chemical engineering.

Giorgos Kaminis

Giorgos Kaminis is an American born Greek professor of constitutional law, and mayor of Athens since 2010. He was the Greek Ombudsman from April 2003 until September 2010.He studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens, graduating in 1980. He conducted postgraduate studies in public law at Panthéon-Assas University, gaining a DEA in 1982, followed by the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, where he obtained a doctoratd'État en droit in 1989.

Louka Katseli

Louka Katseli is a Greek economist and politician. She is a former Minister for the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping and a former Minister for Labour and Social Security. In March 2015 she was elected as the new non-executive Chair of the Board in National Bank of Greece. She graduated from the Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, with a B.A. in Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey with the degree of Master of Public Administration. She continued her studies in Princeton University obtaining a Masters of Arts degree in Economics in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Economics in January 1978.

Business & NGOs

Anastasios David

Anastasios David is Non Executive Vice Chairman of Coca Cola HBC AG. He graduated from Tufts University in 1993 and began his career at the Coca Cola bottling system in the United States. He has worked for and/or been member of the board of directors of many companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, KarTess Holding S.A, CCH IDEAL Group S.A., Aegean Airlines S.A., Nephelle Navigation Inc., KarTess Holding , Boval S.A. and Axa Insurance Company. He is a member of the board of trustees of College Year in Athens and member of the executive committee of the Cyprus Union of Shipowners. 

Theodore Fessas

Theodore Fessas is the President of the Federation of Greek Industries. He holds a Mechanical & Electrical Engineering diploma from the National Technical University of Athens and a MSc in Thermodynamics from the University of Birmingham, UK. He has served, as Vice-Chairman of the boards of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), is member of the Board of Directors of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC-Hellas) and the Honorary President of the Federation of Hellenic Information Technology & Communications Enterprises (SEPE). 

Achilles Konstantakopoulos

Achilles Konstantakopoulos is the Managing Director of Temes S.A. since 1995. He is also the Managing Director of Kostatera S.A and Geoellas Mining Company among others. He is a Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne graduate.

Thanasis Martinos

Thanasis Martinos holds a degree in Economics from Athens University. He has also studied shipping in London. Currently, he is the Chief Executive of Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Limited (seagoing ship management company).

Alexandra Papalexopoulou

Alexandra Papalexopoulou is the Executive Director since 1995 and the Strategic Planning Director of TITAN Group since1997.From 1992 to 1997 she worked as an executive in the Group Exports Division. Previously, she had worked for the OECD and the consultancy firm BOOZ, ALLEN & HAMILTON in Paris. She is a member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the PAUL and ALEXANDRA CANELLOPOULOS FOUNDATION, the Board of Directors of NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE and the “ALBA College of Business Administration” Association. From 2003 until February 2015 she served as a member of the Board of Directors of FRIGOGLASS, whilst from 2007 to 2009 she served as member of the Board of Directors of EMPORIKI BANK. She studied Economics at the SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, USA, and Business Administration (MBA) at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

Stathis Potamitis

Stathis Potamitis is the managing partner of Potamitis Vekris law firm. He graduated from the University of Toronto and University of Paris IV. He is a LLB, BA, MA holder. He has a broadly based transactional practice and has taken a leadership role in promoting restructuring and corporate governance in the local market. He has acted in numerous cross-border mergers and acquisitions across South-East Europe.

Efthimis Vassilakis

Efthimis Vassilakis is the Managing Director of Autohellas S.A./Hertz and also the Vice Chairman of Aegean Airlines & Olympic Air. Eftichios Vassilakis holds a number of non-executive directorships with Greek listed companies Fourlis, TITAN and Bank of Piraeus. He is Vice President of Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE). He is also a Board Member of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises(SEV). Mr. Vassilakis holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University (1988) and an MBA from the Columbia Business School of New York (1991).

Nikos Haralampidis

Nikos Haralampidis is currently the Director of the Greek Office of Greenpeace. He has graduated from the University of Athens from where he obtained a BSc. in physics and oceanography. He has also attended a MSc. in meteorology and oceanography at the University of Paris IV. During the last year he has mainly been focused on green development.

Dimitris Karavelas

Dimitris Karavelas is the Director of WWF Greece, since 1998. He has studied hydrobiology and management of fisheries management. His involvement with WWF Greece started in 1993, when he was the coordinator of a program related to the Mediterranean seal.

Leonidas Cambanis

Graduated Moraitis high school in Athens and had one year of college at Hamilton College. He managed family’s shipping interests out of London (Hydrousa Shipping Co Ltd.) and Piraeus (Hydroussa Shipping Co SA) between 1981 and 1994. He has created Kritias SA (renamed Lambda Cambanis SA) in 2000, an “environmental research and applications” company with headquarters in Pikermi, Greece. He is the founding president of the Kaireios Library in Andros and co-founder of the Initiative for Heritage Conservation (GR) and The Initiative for Heritage Conservation NA. Since 2005 he has been involved with a number of civic society projects (some in collaboration with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Contact information

ICRE8 Research Centre

Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou,

Maroussi, Athens, Greece.

15125

+30 (210) 687-5346

 

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