The Administrative Team and its Members are involved in the planning, organization and development of the day-to-day activities of the Institute.
Athanasios Papandropoulos is a Journalist - Economist, with 60 years of journalistic experience in Greece and abroad. He worked for 34 years at the well-known Greek magazine "Economic Tachydromos" and other publications of the Lambrakis Press Group (DOL) and collaborated with major newspapers, specialized magazines, TV and radio stations in Greece, France and Germany. He has served as President of the Hellenic Periodical-Electronic Press Union and the Institute for Journalistic Studies and Research, as well as of the Association of European Journalists and the Association of Journalists for Europe of Freedoms and Democracy. He is currently Honorary International President of the European Federation of Journalists, member of the Board of the Association of European Parliamentarian Journalists, member of the Senate for the Union of Europe, which honoured him for his articles on federal Europe. He has also been awarded 42 European and Greek journalism prizes.
Gerasimos Livadas is a management graduate from Oxford, he operates in the medical biotechnology sector and has been a Board Member of the Hellenic Medical and Biotechnology Business Association since 2011, having served as Chairman from 2017-2022. He has dozens of publications in international and Greek scientific journals, contributed to 2 English-language books on Medical Ethics, and has authored many articles on Health Economics and Health Policy.
Constantine Alexopoulos is the founder, publisher, and director of Orthos Logos, the first Constructive Journalism medium in Greece. With undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Economics and an accumulated 25 years of experience in business, he has specialized in business growth and development consulting. He is a member and volunteer in several international academic, social, philanthropic, and other organizations on issues related to human, economic, and global development, he writes articles and has been involved in translations and editing of publications.
John Kanoupakis is a Journalist, and a graduate of the Varvakios Prototype School, he studied Law and started journalism in 1983 as a Parliamentary and then Political Editor. He has worked for newspapers and magazines, television, and other electronic media, and has served at various times as a communications officer in the Ministries of Agriculture, Defence, and Development. Over the last decade, he has covered a variety of issues in the energy and business sectors as well as reporting on the automotive market. He is a contributor-correspondent to various print and electronic media, Editor-in-Chief of OrthosLogos.News and a regular member of the Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers.
Dimitris Vergados is the Director of Public and Media Communication at the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV). He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, followed by postgraduate studies at the University of Piraeus (Department of Business Administration & Management) with a Ph.D. thesis on "Redesign of Business Processes & Total Quality Management". He also holds the "Certified Quality Technician" diploma from the American Society for Quality Control. He has worked for 15 years as a Director of Special Publications and Research for a specialized business-to-business information organization covering industrial development and investments, total quality management, logistics-supply chain organization, automation systems, packaging, etc. He was an associate of the Press Office of the Presidency of the Greek Republic (1997-1998). He has been awarded the journalism prize "Leo Melas 1994-1995" by SEV. He is President of the research/development arm of SEV "The House of Greek Industry SA". He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), the Hellenic Association of Chemical Engineers (HACE), the American Society for Quality (ASQ), the Greek Section of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ-GREEK SECTION), the Greek NED CLUB (The Non-Executive Directors’ Club), as well as an alternate Member of the Plenary of the Economic and Social Committee of Greece.
Journalist/Investigator with studies in Journalism and extensive experience in International and Diplomatic reporting, both in Greek and English speaking media. He has conducted numerous interviews with key figures in academia, diplomacy and the military, and has conducted missions to countries such as Ukraine. He is continuing his studies in the field of Economics and Finance. He writes for "OrthosLogos.News" and other digital media.
Natasha Stasinou is a Journalist, Editor-in-Chief at naftemporiki.gr. She graduated from the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University and holds a Master's degree in European and International Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has worked at "NET 105.8" in international news writing and coordination of the station's morning magazine and, since 2007, at the Naftemporiki newspaper covering European and global economy, EU policies, and international relations. She has also served as editor-in-chief of moneyreview.gr and contributes articles to Orthos Logos and other online media.
Yannis Arampatzis holds a degree from the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace and a Master's degree in European Law from the Institute of European Studies of the ULB in Brussels. He then studied Journalism in Thessaloniki where he also practiced law from 1987 to 2003. In the context of a doctoral degree in Positive Psychology, he studied psychology at Panteion University and participated in National and International Psychology Conferences. As a member of the Hellenic Society of Positive Psychology he participates in European ERASMUS+ programmes. He is also a regular contributor to the digital magazine of constructive journalism "Orthos Logos".