Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Tzavaras
Lecturer at European University of Cyprus
Title: Creating economic recovery and growth
He is a graduate of the Department of Statistics and Insurance Science of the School of Finances and Statistics of the University of Piraeus specializing in the analysis of portfolios (1999). Furthermore, he holds two postgraduate degrees. The first one is a Master’s in Advanced Studies in Telematics Management from the School of Media, Management, Information and Communication from Danube University of Krems, Austria specializing in e-Finance (2002). His second postgraduate degree is in Informatics Systems from the Greek Open University specializing in e-Government (2009). Finally, he wrote his doctoral dissertation at the National Metsovio Polytechnic School in the area of Humanities, Social Sciences and Justice (AKED) at the school of Applied Mathematics and Natural Sciences, focusing on the topic of the influence of Social Media on the real economy and the social identity of citizens (2019). He has a teaching experience in the tertiary education since the academic year 2000-2001; it includes mainly contracts of assignment of scientific or laboratory work, with independent teaching, to content pertinent to the fields of finance, statistic, macroeconomic, quantitative methods, social media and adults education.
Ms. Marina Basimakopoulou
PhD Student in the field of Sociology of Technology & Applied Ethics at National Technical University of Athens
Title: Investigating social media use by civil aviation, safety-critical front line operators in the European region: Research proposition, preliminary results and conceptual framework
She graduated from the Department of Biology, School of Applied Sciences of National & Kapodistrian University Of Athens. Holds MSc in Nutrition from King’s College, University of London, and MSc in Human Resources Management (With Honors’) from Athens University of Economics & Business. She is an ATPL (A) Student Pilot and an Agile Certified Practitioner from PMI. She is an experienced Air Traffic Controller and holds a number of specialties, registrations and certifications related to the above-mentioned domains. Currently she works at the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority as an ATM/ANS Expert and she is the Head of ATM/ANS Oversight, Regulations & Certification Section. Her professional and academic interests include human performance in complex systems, professional ethics, virtue ethics, leadership, flight safety and safety culture. She likes to spend her free time reading, seeing her family & friends, traveling, swimming and puddling. She is a big fan of MotoGP and football.