THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The Foundation is managed by a Board of Trustees, consisting of nine (9) members. Its first President, serving until his death in 1979, was Prodromos – Bodossakis Athanassiades. He was succeeded by Nikos Kogevinas, who served as President of the Board of Trustees until June 1991 and as honorary President until his death in 2006. Stamatis Matzavinos served as President from 1991 until his death in August 2007, and was succeeded by Dimitrios Vlastos, who served as President of the Bodossaki Foundation’s Board of Trustees until June 2021. Current President from June 2021 is Athina Dessypri.
According to the Foundation’s regulations, all members of the Board of Trustees must be selected from among persons having served as top management or senior executives of companies under the Foundation control in the past, persons currently serving as senior executives of the Foundation, recipients of a Bodossaki Scientific Award or Excellence Award or former holders of scholarship from the Bodossaki Foundation.
The current composition of the Board of Trustees is the following:
President
Athina Dessypri
Vice President
Prof. Theodoros Theodorou
Μember
Vassilis Antoniadis
Prof. Theodora Varvarigou
Georgios Bibilas
Efthimios Patsouris
Prof. Georgios Kollias
Prof. Konstantinos Megir
Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas
Honorary President
Dimitris Vlastos
THE FOUNDATION’S TEAM
Programmes & Grants Management and Coordination
Sotiris Laganopoulos
Programmes & Grants Administration
Theano Agaloglou
Sophocles Danassis
Eleni Detsi
Alexandros Zafiropoulos
Eleni Karakitsiou
Jenny Lazarou
Maria Tsene
NGO Capacity Building – Social Dynamo
Jennifer Clarke
Rania El Ampasy
Sophia Zacharaki
Violetta Tsitsiliani
Katerina Fragkou
Communication & Development
Ηara Tasoglou
Alia Moatsou
George Stavroulis
Marilena Makri
Yagos Antiohos
Legal Department
Efthimios Patsouris
Dimitris Soultis
Hristos Theodorakopoulos
Accounting
George Anastasiadis
Spyros Antoniou
Dimitrios Palaiodimos
Stefanos Efthimiopoulos
Administrative Support
Dimitra Gallou
Ismini Fragkioudaki
THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTE
The Foundation’s Scientific Committee is composed of the following persons:
| Iannis Aifantis | Professor at the School of Medicine of New York University (NYU) |
| Theodora Varvarigou | Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) |
| Nikos Vettas | Professor at the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and Director General at the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) |
| Georgios Kollias | Professor of Experimental Physiology at the Medical School of the University of Athens and Director of the Immunology Division at the “Alexander Fleming” Biomedical Sciences Research Center |
| Costas Meghir | Professor at the Department of Economics of Yale University |
| Leonidas Resvanis | Emeritus Professor of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) |
| Michael Triantrafyllou
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Professor of Marine Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Visiting Scientist at the US Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Director of the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering and Director of the MIT Testing Tank Facility and Propeller Tunnel |
| Athanassios Fokas | Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of Cambridge University |