Georgios Panagakos

Graduated in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering - National Technical University of Athens (1983), MA in Economics - Virginia Tech (1989) and master's degree in Ocean Systems Management - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985). He has extensive experience in development economics, with emphasis on project appraisal and evaluation. He is an expert in the application of cost-benefit analysis, mainly in the transport and SME sectors. His professional activities have brought him into contact with a variety of socio-economic contexts ranging from the World Bank and the European Commission to developing countries in central Asia, Africa and the Middle East. As a consultant, GPA has participated and managed a large number of projects related to private sector development in Greece and abroad. Some of these projects had a budget of more than 1.5 million in the framework of the EU Phare and Tacis programmes.In parallel, during the last 20 years GPA has participated as external researcher in numerous research projects mainly funded by the European Commission in the area of maritime transport efficiency and safety. During the last 5 years, his primary research subject has been the environmental performance of transport operations and more specifically the green corridors of freight logistics which, in addition, is the topic of his Ph.D. project since April 2013 in Technical University of Denmark - DTU Transport.