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Overview

The Center of Excellence in Logistics, Shipping & Transportation (CoELST) promotes the intellectual, pedagogical and outreach infrastructure necessary to make Greece a leading innovator in logistics, shipping and transportation. Through fostering innovative research, teaching and public outreach in these fields by means of academic programs, fellowships, internships, lectures, policy papers, media productions, symposia and conferences, the CoELST seeks to help propel Greece’s economic growth.

The CoELST provides a forum for the interchange of ideas between transport researchers, managers, policy makers and educators from Greece and all over the world, from a perspective that is multi-modal, multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral. In addition to other unique roles, the CoELST identifies emerging issues and opportunities of a policy, managerial or technical nature that will influence future logistics, shipping and transportation research, policy, management and education. In this way, the Center intends to play a decisive leadership role in linking research and practice.

Mission

Providing the Intellectual, Pedagogical and Outreach infrastructure necessary to make Greece a leading innovator in Logistics, Shipping and Transportation.

Vision

To be the intersection of education, industry and public policy that drives innovation in Greece’s logistics, shipping and transportation sector. 

Impact

The CoELST aims to develop and communicate state-of-the-art knowledge and technologies to design, manage and operate innovative, effective, safe and sustainable transportation networks. The methods and solutions we develop will provide high-value solutions to numerous complex socio-economic challenges in transportation and contribute to the overall development of Greece. We establish and expand the intellectual, pedagogical and outreach infrastructure necessary to make Greece a leading innovator in logistics, shipping and transportation through education, research, public policy, and public service. The CoELST focuses on the creation, development and collaborative networks to facilitate further development in the shipping sector and propose improvements in the transportation industry in Greece by means of:

Promoting efficient and sustainable transportation systems
Developing public policy research & advocacy that opens new opportunities for innovation in the shipping and infrastructure industries
Promoting scientific research & educational activities that are responsive to real-time industry challenges

Shipping Reports

ACG Shipping Reports contain analyses (in chronological order) produced by the shipping management research team regarding the maritime shipping industry and shipping companies that could be useful to shipping practicing managers, analysts, scholars, and students.

Leadership

Georgios Kokosalakis, ScD
Executive Director of the Center of Excellence in Logistics, Shipping and Transportation
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Advisory Board Members

Prof. Lily Elefteriadou, PhD
Director, University of Florida Transportation Institute, Gainesville, FL, USA
Bill Halkias, PE, F.ASCE, F.ITE
Managing Director & CEO, Attica Tollway Operations Authority, Attikes Diadromes SA, Athens, GR
Georgia Kournioti
Marketing Director, Telemarketing S.A., Athens, GR
Suzanna Laskaridis
Director, Lavinia Corp and Laskaridis Shipping, Kifisia, GR
Dr. Perikles Nicolaou, PhD
CEO, GAIAOSE S.A., Athens, GR
Andreas Pagalos
Senior Vice President & Chief Surveyor, DNV
Prof. Andreas Papatheodorou, FHEA, FTS
President, Hellenic Aviation Society, Athens, GR
Nikolaos Rodopoulos
President & Managing Director, Online Data SA, Kallithea, GR
Dr. Johanna Tzanidaki
Director of Innovation and Development, ERTICO – ITS Europe, Brussels, BE
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Academic Advisory Board

Prof. Anna Giannopoulou-Merika
Professor, Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Deree – ACG
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Christos Sigalas, PhD
Strategic Management, Corporate Finance, Management Accounting, and Maritime Financial Management
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Spyros Vougious
Program Director of the MBA in Shipping & MSc in Shipping Management, Alba - ACG
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Fellows

Ioannis Kalaitzidis, PhD
Associate Professor of Cognition and Education at Deree - ACG
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Peter Stavroulakis, PhD
Management and International Business
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Athena Tsirimpa, PhD
Transport Economist and Modeler, Part Time Faculty, Deree – ACG
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Fellows are resident full- or part-time ACG faculty with well-established research profiles, appointed by the president on the recommendation of chief academic officer and relevant academic deans. With the approval of the deans, the chief academic officer and the president, the CoELST also invites scholars from around the world to ACG to teach and/or conduct research. These Visiting Fellows of the CoELST are eminent scholars working, just like the resident Fellows, in areas of academic studies directly relevant to logistics, shipping and transportation, including relevant public policies, industrial practices and entrepreneurial development. Visiting Fellows retain their (non-voting) Fellow status and certain privileges after the formal term of their fellowship ends.

Members

Minos Eleftheriou, PhD
Operations and Project Management
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Dr. Kelly Gerakoudi-Ventouri
Faculty, Deree - The American College of Greece
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Kostas Levetas, PhD
Leading, Managing, and Consulting complex systems and organizations
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Maria Progoulaki, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Maritime Human Resources, Management of Multicultural Crew, and Maritime Education and Training
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Ioanna N. Pentheroudakis, PhD
Chartering and Maritime Human Resource Management
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Andreas Kakouris, PhD
Strategy, Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Nikolaos Reizis, PhD
Development of Sales Networks, Personal and Professional Mobility and Transportation Solutions, Business and Shipping cycles, Sales Planning and Execution, Business Problem solving for the Automotive and Shipping Sectors
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Stamatis Theloudis, LL.M.
Maritime Law focusing on ship financing, chartering and Sale & Purchase contracts
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Yiannis G. Timagenis LL.B. (Athens), LL.M. (Athens), LL.M. (London), M.C.I.Arb.
Maritime Law
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President of the Shipping Management Student Association
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Member faculty represent scholars performing research and teaching within the scope of the CoELST and collaborating in the Center’s initiatives and projects. Members of the CoELST are eligible for focused support to foster their research and curricular development.