George Giannopoulos
Advisory Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China, and a member of the Energy Steering panel of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC)
Prof. George A. Giannopoulos is a transportation planner, professor
emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and
correspondent member of the Academy of Athens. He is the immediate past director of the Hellenic Institute of Transport - the National Transport Research Organisation of Greece - which he founded and chaired for 16 years.
He is currently, an Advisory Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China, and a member of the Energy Steering panel of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC).
During his career, Prof. Giannopoulos worked extensively in various
Committees and working groups of the European Commission as a
member or chair. For 12 years - 7 of which as its chair – he was a member of the Transport Advisory Group, the high-level advisory body of the EU Transport Research Programs.
He is the author of 19 books, 7 of which are in English, and of more than 250 papers.