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In this episode we go shortly through some questions that really address the big question; that of “Are zero emissions, zero?”:

Mimicking tissues and organs and fish dynamics, the forces of nature with simplicity and without simplification, maximising current technologies for more affordable offshore wind farms where population density is high and there is a shortage of available land, producing plant-based biofuels non-chemically are some of the top learning moments at the Global Greek Influence podcast.

Researchers may speak with modesty, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of their work. This does not mean that their solutions are not beneficial; they are not businessmen or marketers.

They produce patents that do not reach us because some industries might not want to invest in new processes and products as they prefer incremental improvements to their existing products and not real innovation.

What researchers need is an equitable approach by funding bodies, technologies businesses andindustries. That is the definition of symbiosis, between humans and nature, between the present and future.

#renewableenergy #healthcare #biofuels

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Με τον Δρ Απόστολο Πιστόλα, ειδικό στην εκλογική συμπεριφορά αλλά και Έλληνα του εξωτερικού, ολοκληρώνουμε τη συζήτηση μας:

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How does business affect the future of technology and politics?

Where do research talents fit in the business that shapes the future of science, engineering and technology?

Does investing in research talents bring solutions to the business and technology?

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Με τον Δρ Απόστολο Πιστόλα, ειδικό στην εκλογική συμπεριφορά αλλά και Έλληνα του εξωτερικού, συζητάμε για τη σημασία της εκλογικής συμμετοχής των Ελλήνων της διασποράς, αν αφορούν οι εθνικές εκλογές στους Έλληνες της διασποράς (παγκόσμιους Έλληνες), ποια τα ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά τους ως εκλογείς και η σύγκριση τους στην εκλογική συμπεριφορά με αυτή των Τούρκων αποδήμων για τις προεδρικές εκλογές.

Μείνετε συντονισμένοι για το 2ο μέρος της συζήτησης με τον Δρ Απόστολο Πιστόλα, την επόμενη Κυριακή, οπότε ολοκληρώνουμε τη συζήτηση μας σε σχέση με το μέλλον της συμμετοχής των Ελλήνων του εξωτερικού σε επόμενες εκλογές.

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Professor Christos Maravelias, the Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University (US) speaks to the Global Geek Influence podcast about:

-      transitioning toward a #sustainable industry and products in the next decade,

-      making more objective and informed decisions in producing biofuels,

-      machine learning transforming the chemicalindustry and #AI the chemical engineering education and research,

-      advantageous methods to store concentrating solar power,

-      what we know about integrating direct air #carbon capture,

-      correlating membrane materials with the process design for sustainable operations.

Would Christos choose the same PhD field and an academic career if he were now 20 years old?

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What makes our future better and wiser?

You can find out how technology, science and engineering research help in the innovation and growth of our societies through your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future. In this last part, we cover quantum computing, future food needs, energy and the UN blue economy, future digital education, chemical engineering and new disciplines from the point of view of Global Greek Experts.

You can always catch up if you missed the first part of your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future to listen to the transformations of AI, medicine, business, space and transportation in smart cities. 

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The first part of your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future covering:

AI, medicine, business, space exploration and exploitation, transportation and smart cities, quantum computing on cybersecurity and drug discovery, future food needs, energy and the UN blue economy, digital-future-global education, chemical engineering- new disciplines- the Universe, from the point of view of Global Greek Experts.

Stay tuned for the second part, next Sunday, 30 April 2023.

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The least approached answers of 5+1 questions for renewables and emissions reduction you might listen to elsewhere as custom-made to various sectors narratives:

What is the future of renewables in transportation?

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Dr Spyros Kasapis, a research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center and working on Machine Learning Applications for Heliophysics speaks about:

Spyros did his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in the US. He has a Master of Science in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor (US), where he also finished his PhD.

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What do birthdays have to do with technology?

Anyone and anything born: a human, a technology, an idea, reminds us of the beginning of a life cycle.

The day a human, a technology, or a political action is born signifies a great promise. But it is all of us who determine their present and future.

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Gerasimos Papaleventis (Vice President - Treasury, Head of Controlling and Monitoring in FIMBank plc, Malta) discusses and helps us detangle the implications of the current banks’ crises to see how they could affect the start-up and technology sectors:

Gerasimos is a Banker and an Economist with almost 25 years of experience and progressive responsibility in financial and banking services. He holds a Master II degree in Banking and Insurance Science from Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (Paris XIII).

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Professor Ioannis Brilakis, the Laing O'Rourke Professor of Civil & Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK), discusses how AI in infrastructure transforms the future of the Built Environment:

· making roads safer and greener,

· robotics and automation science and technology,

· game technologies in construction plant safety operations,

· 3D mobile mapping and digital twins for infrastructure,

· moving forward with the digitalisation of industrial operations,

· minimise risk and increase safety,

· why and how research projects should transform.

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What is the interplay between neuroscience, leadership, innovation, human capital and talent?

Is foresight a concrete procedure for organisations, or is it also transferrable to individuals?

Is upskilling and retraining enough when we transform the economy through novel technologies whose core are innovative science and engineering?

Or are we missing deepening novelty through the personalised foresight for PhD candidates and holders in Science, Engineering and Technology to diffuse innovation?

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With Dr Kyriaki (Kiki) Sonidou, a GP (General Practitioner), a specialist in Cardiology and Diabetes, and President of the Hellenic Medical Society in the U.K., LSE and Harvard University Global Health delivery and systems), we discuss:

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Professor Dimitris Drikakis (Vice President for Global Partnerships, Executive Director for Research and Innovation at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, Defence and Security Research Institute President) discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI):

Professor Drikakis received twice the William Penney Fellowship Award by the UK’s AWE Plc (Atomic Weapons Establishment Government ministry) in recognition of his contributions to compressible fluid dynamics and computational science and the Innovator of the Year Award (2014) by the UK’s Innovation Institute for a new generation Carbon Capture Nanotechnology with a major to reducing atmospheric pollution. The US Air Force (USAF) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research have recently granted Professor Drikakis a new award for high-speed flows and acoustics advanced computational methods in Machine Learning (ML). 

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With Dr Constantine Stratakis (Chief Scientific Officer, ELPEN, Athens, Greece- Director (Res. A'), Human Genetics & Precision Medicine at Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Chief Scientific Officer of ELPEN, SA), we discuss how precision medicine:

and transforming innovative research into products and services within the “circular” healthcare economy.

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Welcoming you into the 4th season of the Global Greek Influence podcast, you are re-introduced to what binds together:

· international Greeks who talk about technology through research, innovation, the economy, geopolitics, entrepreneurship and (yes) history,

· to define and address our current and future challenges on earth and (possibly) in space in a technology podcast.

One could say that redefining technology is going back to the roots of philosophy or simply being well-informed about all present and future trends of different sectors and their synergies, which determine and define technology.

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As engineers, scientists, technologists, researchers in STEM and other researchers, we seek originality in science and its potential applications. As people, we fit into a role we choose. Christmas is a season we mostly reconnect with our people, also tend to look inwards and seek answers. How can we explain the new by studying the old?

In this episode with Marios Koutsoukos (PhD candidate soon to become a doctor of philosophy in the History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool, U.K.), we attempt to detangle our present conceptions, our connection to the past, ours and that of our ancestors, as the story of societies and cultures before us. 

How is our perception of a theorem, an idea, or religion a definitive parameter that allows us to deviate from spirituality, a theory, a solution to a problem, a view of the world, and see ourselves for who we are?

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"The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology"  is about i) re-inventing their research field and bringing transparency to the new market and economy, ii) creating an environment where researchers can also thrive as individuals based on their talents and human approach, iii) enjoying more every moment and step without worrying too much or striving for perfection.

I am talking to Dr Vassilis Katos, a Professor of  Cybersecurity and Head of the Computer Emergency Response Team at  Bournemouth University (BU-CERT) in the U.K., Dr Kostas  Stylidis CEO and Co-Founder of Intended Future, an Associate Professor at University West and part-time associate researcher at the Chalmers  University of Technology in Sweden, Professor Anna Stephanopoulou, William Clay Ford  Professor of Technology, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan University, Ann Arbor in the U.S. and Dr Constantine Stratakis, Chief Scientific Officer, ELPEN, Athens, Greece- Director (Res. A'), Human Genetics & Precision Medicine at Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Greece.

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With Tyrone Pitsis (Professor of Strategy and Technology, Director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology Management, Durham University, U.K.), we discuss:

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"Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 2: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)" is about bringing together engineering knowledge, human senses, and product quality, also improving operational instabilities in advanced automobility (fuel cells), "connected and autonomous" vehicles (CAVs) and sustainable transport cybersecurity.

I am talking to Professor Anna Stephanopoulou, William Clay Ford Professor of Technology, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan University, Ann Arbor in the U.S., Dr Alexandros Nikitas from the Huddersfield Business School and Director of the Future Mobility Lab at the University of Huddersfield in the U.K., Dr Kostas Stylidis CEO and Co-Founder of Intended Future, an Associate Professor at University West and part-time associate researcher at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and Dr Vassilis Katos, a Professor of Cybersecurity and Head of the Computer Emergency Response Team at Bournemouth University (BU-CERT) in the U.K. also leading the University's team of the flagship ECHO pilot, part of the European network of Cybersecurity centres and competence Hub for innovation and Operations (more than 160 partners).

To find out more about upcoming episodes, follow the Global Greek Influence podcast on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. 

Another special episode to subscribers only on "The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology" is on 18 December 2022. With special guests who speak about the transparency research brings to the new market and economy, the process of transition of an established researcher shifting to a new area in research, supporting and nurturing professional growth of doctoral students in and for an ambiguous and uncertain future and more. Until next Sunday.

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In the past years, the scientific and research communities have been put in this awkward position to apologise for non-experts' spread of misinformation

including that scientists are corrupt because their facts do not align with what has been widely disseminated.

Either anonymously through social media or well-established show hosts selectively invite a single guest to promote a specific direction agenda rather than asking a panel of experts to allow their audience to draw conclusions.

Is it miscommunication, selective, or partially presented information to serve individuals' personal experiences and backgrounds, and what they are more willing to accept as relatable to them?

In this solo episode, I untangle the labyrinth of the social media role where anyone can use science for entertainment, sensationalism to boost self-worth and confidence blurred with professional recognition vs the accurate messages of science and how to promote the critical ability needed by the public to separate facts from interpretations not only in the field of science communication also for forging democracy.

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With Dr Vassilis Inglezakis (PhD, Chemical Engineer, Reader in Chemical Engineering, and Director of Research at the University of Strathclyde, the U.K.), we discuss the case of Lunar and Martian camps for the planets also deep space exploration:

The chemical engineering perspective is about building technologies, systems and their materials purposed for synthesis- resynthesis, securing resources and serving a circular supply chain in the production cycle (its risk analysis and management), the best operation of such systems and the specific requirements of the building materials of these systems under the space and Lunar-Mars conditions, the sustainability of the resources for those technologies purposes and competing purposing and repurposing.

Vassilis has also been my guest in the 2020 episode "Leadership in Technology: Science or Politics?" and the special episode in 2021, "The power of Negotiations".

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The Global Greek Influence podcast will continue to bring exclusive guests' master class discussions as free content every two weeks.

Starting this Sunday, subscribers will be able to listen to exclusive content by contributing to the podcast, as currently, platforms in Europe do not give you the option of donations.

So, you can keep listening for free to the new guest interviews every two Sundays and the subscription specially created episodes in between.

I hope you enjoy the Global Greek Influence podcast content, and I am grateful for your support over the past (almost) three years.

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The HELC (Hellenic European Leadership Council) was founded to connect and activate Greeks in the diaspora of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to help on the principle of common purposes and national interests.

With Angeliki Tzampazi and Despoina Tripylioti (HELC members, also the Young Leaders Programme organising committee members) and two of the 2022 HELC Young Leaders, Angeliki Martinou and Konstantinos Kolokotronis, we discuss:

· the importance of the "Young Leaders Programme" to the HELC,

· how the programme formed and or has it transformed their sense of leadership,

· the biggest challenges leaders face today,

· advocating the HELC by becoming its ambassador,

and more.

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With Dr Kostas Stylidis (CEO and Co-Founder of Intended Future, an Associate Professor at University West and part-time associate researcher at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), we discuss:

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Captain Efstathios Kyriakidis is the Branch Chief Operations Coordination in the EU Military Staff (EUMS) and Deputy Director of the EU Maritime Area of Interest Coordination Cell (MAICC) and whose career spans over four decades. We discuss aspects of the future crises and managing peace by the EU through:

· the contribution of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in Ukraine,

· considering the CSDP extension from conflict prevention to a security actor,

· the "EU Strategic Compass" as (i) the platform for the EU's future role in global security, (ii) the implementation tool to transform the EU military Strategy

· the Coordinated Maritime Presences (CMP) ensuring future Maritime Areas security, the international collaboration and partnership at Sea,

· the EU's role in the Indo-Pacific region,

· the level of independent control of the EU military missions by the EU Military Staff regarding NATO.

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Given France's leading position in the EU, we discuss, with George Tassiopoulos (PhD in Political Sciences, empirical and theoretical expert in French and European politics and political parties), the influence of the 2022 French parliamentary elections regarding:

- sanctions toward Russia,

- the presidential (Macron's) "national and European sovereignty" programme and the president's authority in foreign policy,

- the reality about Mr Mélenchon (NUPES) and Mrs LePen (Rassemblement National),

- the synergies between the presidency and the newly elected national assembly (parliament),

- the lessons we take from the French parliamentary elections about our maturity as EU citizens of democracies.

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Dr Marios Efthymiopoulos (CEO of the Strategy International strategyinternational.org, specialised in policy crafting and decision-making) discusses:

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Dr Constantine Stratakis (Chief Scientific Officer, ELPEN, Athens, Greece- Director (Res. A'), Human Genetics & Precision Medicine at Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)), a world recognised leader in utilising genetic linkage and other genome-wide tools to identify small molecules responsible for genetic defects causing a number of human diseases, speaks about:

· the reasons gene therapy is more important than the current treatment of diseases,

· the steps towards personalised diagnostics for prevention and treatment options to become the rule and not the exception,

· why the predictive human immune system response could be crucial for upcoming pandemics,

· how nanoparticles could become key to functionalise and targeting tissues,

and that there is no single path to follow based on your preferences and wishes.

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Dr Eleni Diamanti (Senior researcher / Director of Research CNRS  Sorbonne University, Vice Director of the Paris Centre for Quantum  Computing) is a leading expert on experimental quantum cryptography and communication complexity and the development of photonic resources and protocols for quantum networks.

Dr Diamanti discusses

Available on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, Google podcasts and other major podcasting platforms and applications.

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With Dr Costas Nikiforidis (Associate Professor of Biobased Materials, Wageningen University, the Netherlands), we discuss:

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Professor Anna Stefanopoulou (William Clay Ford Professor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and I discuss:

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Professor Vasilis Katos (Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of the Computer Emergency Response Team at Bournemouth University (BU-CERT)) is my guest in this episode where we discuss:

− cybersecurity in the circular economy for sustainability and climate change,

− IoT and circularity-by-design,

− AI enhancing cyberdefence,

− cryptography in freedom of speech against authoritative regimes.

Vasilis also leads the flagship ECHO pilot, part of the European network of Cybersecurity centres and competence Hub for Innovation and Operations.

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Peter Stefanidis is the President of the Pontian Federation in Australia, an IT specialist and enthusiast, filmmaker and YouTuber (My Greek TV, Pontos TV) is my guest in this special episode on

- federalising the Pontian Associations in Australia,

- promoting the Australian recognition of the Pontic genocide through the Joint Justice Initiative (Pontian Federation as a founding member), also

- the need to internationalise the Pontic genocide,

- agile leadership!

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Energy resilience goes through renewable energy and hydrogen between Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the impactful geopolitics and hybrid alliances in Europe and the TransPacific.

Could the energy transformation and hybrid alliances impact geopolitics, disrupt global trade and multilateral energy relations, reshaping the energy market?

Featured opinions: Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (Secretary General of Hydrogen Europe), Professor Andrew Delios (Business School, National University of Singapore), Constantinos Papalucas (Energy Policy expert: Negotiations, Oil and Gas Business, Geopolitics of Energy- Coordinator of the National Hydrogen Committee).

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Dr Jake Sotiriadis, Dr Spyros Plakoudas and Dr Marios Efthymiopoulos bring perspective to NATO’s role under the revamped Russia and China through:

· Chinese Neo-Confucianism and Russian Neo-Eurasianism,

· NATO’s 21st-century functionalization and its US leadership,

· EU foreign affairs.

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In the second part of the discussion with Dr Kleanthis Kyriakidis (AUE, College of Security and Global studies) we focus on

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Summarising last Sunday's episode and what is on this Sunday's episode on "Russia & China at the East Med and the Middle East".

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In the first part of the episode "Russia & China in the East Med and the Middle East", Dr Kleanthis Kyriakidis (former Captain of the Hellenic Navy, Program Director of the Master of Arts in Diplomacy at the College of Security and Global Studies in the American University of Emirates, Policy Advisor – Negotiator – Public Relations Expert - Political Analyst (focus Middle East)) we discuss:

At the end of this episode, you will listen to the topics discussed in the second and last part of "Russia & China in the East Med and the Middle East", released next Sunday.

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Professor Iakovos Tzanakis (Oxford Brookes University) on the techniques and methods to advance materials for future technologies’ challenges, as in metals/ composites used in aerospace, large-scale additive manufacturing, energy storage and biomimetics. Why could vertical axis wind turbines farms replace the current propeller design (Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines)?

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Leadership starts with decisions we make and is bound to vision, intelligence, adaptability, persistence, integrity, and honesty.

· What we define as leadership.

· What leadership really is.

· When we don’t have breakthroughs in leadership

· How one becomes a leader.

George Tassiopoulos (Political Scientist & Cross-Cultural Consultant) and I discuss and the upcoming French presidential elections bring to the EU's foreign affairs

· Is a new cold war brewing between Russia and the EU?

· Does the EU want and can become a geostrategic player?

· Could France speed up the events in the Eastern Mediterranean?

· Do the French voters' priorities influence those of the next President?

· Is there an unpredictable outcome in the French elections that could raise more uncertainty in the EU's weak geopolitical status?

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History can better prepare us for the future. By studying and understanding:

we can see the futuristic leadership in the making.

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History and philosophy are seen as elitist topics and not for most. In this episode with Marios Koutsoukos (PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool, fiction author, heavy metal bands lyricist and French literature studies), we see that there is nothing new today and in history, but constant evolution and selective hybridisation and syncretism of any present times.

Lessons through:

What elements do we choose to keep to becoming from being?

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What we choose to keep moving to the future and how we become from being:

· the roles of prioritising and open-mindedness in "A Good Beginning is More than Half of the Whole",

· the necessity of a shared vision and empathy to transition from being to becoming,

· the synthesis that makes the continuum between the past and the future.

Giving a distinct dimension through featuring Global Greek Influence podcast episodes: “The hybrid innovation”, "The internationalisation of the Pontic Greeks' genocide", "We will always have Chaos" and "The past defines us: The end of philosophy and the beginning of the middle ages- The Byzantines".

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Constantinos Papalucas an Energy Policy expert (as well as one in Negotiations, Oil and Gas Business, Geopolitics of Energy), and now the Coordinator of the National Hydrogen Committee at the Ministry of Environment and Energy, discusses

· Greece's and EU's sustainable energy approach with a focus on hydrogen economy,

· how hybrid alliances affect the EU’s, Greece’s and Cyprus' energy and strategy geopolitics,

· transitioning from a fossil fuels economy to a renewables' one,

· how and if energy resilience can become a key actor of the EU's, Greece's and Cyprus' geopolitics,

· the steps towards the mandate to draft the National Hydrogen Strategy of the Hellenic Republic within 2021,

· the Greek participation in the Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) "Hydrogen Technologies and Systems".

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Stavros Papagianneas is a multifaceted strategic communicator with over 20 years of experience in PR, strategic communications, public affairs, digital communication, social media and media relations at the European Commission and various diplomatic missions in Brussels.

Stavros unveils in this episode the synergies for European integration, foreign affairs and geostrategy, democracy, and the great opportunity in the post-pandemic era. Also:

· Could the EU be rebranded and become a strong geopolitical actor?

· How can young researchers build their branding name to become leaders in their field?

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We see the irreversible effects of insufficient scientific and political communication during the pandemic. We should not forget that all means, including those of communication in our lives, are outcomes- results- products of science and policies.

Could we rebrand a Union and the future research leaders?

Why does Greece choose its national public consultation to be technology-agnostic regarding hydrogen technologies?

Stay tuned for the podcast episodes "We will always have Chaos" and "Energy outlooks of a hybrid future" on the 12th and 19th of December 2021.

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and

With features opinions of Dr Chris Kyriakidis, Marina Hatsopoulos, Dr Fotis Filippopoulos and Jorgo Chatzimarkakis.

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The void of the pandemic as our transition from an old world to a new one gives us unique opportunities:

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Dr George Tassiopoulos, Political Scientist & Cross-Cultural Consultant, is an empirical and theoretical expert in French and European politics, including Greek politics and geopolitics, founder of a business consultancy with academic experience at the European Business School in Paris.

We discuss under the prism of cross-cultural affairs:

· the French political scene and foreign affairs including in the Eastern Mediterranean and leadership to strengthen the European Union security collaboration,

· the EU integration in politics and business,

· the 21st-century geopolitics and the patchwork of hybrid alliances,

and

· the French- Greek Republics comparison on democracy.

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Dr Marios Efthymiopoulos (Dean of the College of Security and Global Studies, AUE), CEO of Strategy International and I discuss:

· the role of hybrid alliances and their effects on established ones, as well as on the EU,

· the decisive parameters in forecasting the future of hybrid alliances,

· the Republic of Cyprus security resilience,

· the ultimate changes in leadership and decision making in the 21st century,

· actors and technologies of global security, and,

· the interaction of Turkey and China in Africa.

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Dr Chris Kyriakidis is co-founder of gMendel, which provides the diagnosis of genetic disorders for better disease management. Chris has over 25 years of experience in general management and business development in more than 70 countries on all continents by running a multimillions international business; a founder of two biosciences start-up companies, a social enterprise and a foundation.

We talk about:

· catalytic innovation giving solutions to social problems,

· rebranding companies and change management,

· a sustainable impact on future generations,

· empowering potential talents,

· futuristic and collective leadership.

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Dr Antonis Chaldeos (PhD in History, University of Johannesburg) is an independent researcher and currently affiliated with the University of Johannesburg as a Research Associate. Antonis studied and published his research on the Greek presence in the horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia), Zambia, Tanzania, South Africa, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Burundi and Ruanda, as well as the effects of the French and British colonialism and post-colonialism to the Greek populations in the respective countries, after extensive travelling both in Africa and Europe.

We discuss:

You can find more about Greeks in Africa at greeksofafrica.blogspot.gr.

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Professor Kyriakos Kouveliotis (Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Berlin School of Business and Innovation) is a multifaceted expert and my guest in this episode. Professor Kouveliotis contributes in seemingly divergent areas: European integration, international relations, diplomacy, decision and policy-making, conflict resolution and crisis management, new curricula, programs syllabi and building new global educational networks and partnerships.

We discuss:

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Innovation is publically seen through the eyes of businesses. Research is crucial to the creation of ideas, products and services. Engineering and scientific research are the pillars of our current and future lives.

We now emphasize the synergies or the synthesis of innovation through researchers, research institutes and their spin-offs, and funding research programmes experts.

Featured opinions:

Dr Maria Kitsara (Lead Research Manager, BioG3D – New 3D),

Dr Emmanuel Stratakis (Research Director at IESL-FORTH, founder and CEO of Biomimetic), and

Dr Celia Hadjichristodoulou (Founder and Managing Director of GrantXpert Consulting, expert in Entrepreneurship and Management of SMEs).

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Marina Hatsopoulos, an entrepreneur in technologies, a director and author of articles, essays, and stories (windystreet.com), discusses:

· if more funding for startups in an ecosystem equates success,

· the initial, critical decisions a startup needs to make,

· the importance of having a diverse team,

· why pivoting is the right word in times of crisis,

· the gap in the academia between fundamental research funding and venture funding,

· where startups can find funding before getting to the point of revenues and

· what women bring in teams and leadership.

Marina is Board Chair of Levitronix Technologies and President of the Hellenic Innovation Network. She is on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for Mechanical Engineering, the Advisory Board of MIT Enterprise Forum Greece, Eurobank’s EGG incubator, and Mindspace Entrepreneurial Program.

Marina holds B.A. degrees in Math and Music from Brown University and has an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. She was Founding CEO of Z Corporation, an early market leader in 3D printing out of MIT. Marina was also a member of the National Board of Research & Innovation for the Republic of Cyprus, a Director of Cynosure Inc., the GSI Group and Contex Holding.

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In this episode, I share my thoughts with you on

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Dr Ioannis Tsipouridis (PhD, University of Leeds), a chemical engineer in renewables since 1978 and I discuss his wind energy journey from Greece to Kenya through his roles as:

and in the Direction of Renewable Energy Sources (Public Power Corporation of Greece (P.P.C.)), through developing wind and photovoltaic parks in the Aegean and Crete in the ’80s and ’90s.

Ioannis is also the Chairman of the nonprofit entity Africa For Renewables In Climate Action, whose acronym is A.F.R.I.C.A. among his many social and scientific activities.

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In this episode, Professor Konstantinos Giapis (Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, CalTech) discusses chemical engineering contributions to renewable energy, utilising CO2 to produce oxygen, cosmology by enriching astrophysics, through surfaces' dynamics studies:

· plasma processing and

· electrospinning hybrid nanomaterials.

Global Greek Influence podcast releases episodes this summer every two Sundays. From September, we will resume the weekly episodes. But next Sunday only will be an exception as a bonus episode with Professor Giapis awaits you.

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Professor Michalis Kontopodis, the Chair in Global Childhood and Youth Studies and the Director of the ICY: Inclusion, Childhood & Youth Research Centre at the University of Leeds, U.K., in his research and international collaborations addresses the key post-pandemic challenges in #education, namely #global #debt #digitalliteracy #inclusion #marginalisation. We discuss:

- how digital literacy can overcome marginalisation,

- why promoting digital literacy in education is critical,

- how youth's inclusion in the political decision-making is achievable and

- what happens with the educations training of professions emerging in the next 10 years.

Summer episodes at the Global Greek Influence podcast are biweekly. Stay tuned until July 25th, 2021 or follow the podcast on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to be up to date with guests and coming episodes. Or visit the podcast's website www.globalgreekinfluence.com.

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In the second part of the interview with Dr Vasileios Adamidis, Principal Lecturer in Law and the International Manager of the School of Law at Nottingham Trent University, you will listen to:

- the challenges of collaboration among legal systems and laws development despite their divergence,

- the future of democracy and the legal system 

- progress as a collective effort

- how one could be prepared to spot populism, given the vast influence of social media on society.

Summer episodes at the Global Greek Influence podcast are biweekly. Stay tuned until July 11th, 2021.

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In this episode, Dr Vasileios Adamidis, Principal Lecturer in Law and the International Manager of the School of Law at Nottingham Trent University, is my guest.

We discuss:

The second part of the conversation with Dr Vasileios Adamidis will be exclusive to the Global Greek Influence podcast subscribers on Apple podcasts.

Stay tuned until next Sunday.

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In this episode, Dr Maria Kitsara, Lead Research Manager on biomedical applications at BioG3D – New 3D printing technologies, and I discuss:

Maria, a materials engineer, has a PhD in miniaturised biosensors and had received three personal research grants on biosensors, microfluidics, and biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. She has worked in Dublin City University in Ireland, in the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Spain, and at the École Normale Supérieure and Sorbonne University in France.

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Humanity's most significant challenges in the next 30 years will be on the environment, water- food, energy, and health. How could technology, aka engineering and science research and innovation, support them? Should engineers and scientists lead research and innovation beyond geopolitics and businesses? How so?

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In this episode, I am with Dr Emmanuel Stratakis, Greece’s Ambassador to the European Innovation Council, the Research Director at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH), also, leader of the “Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- processing” laboratory and founder and CEO of Biomimetic. We discuss:

· What links #nano- #biomimetics with better #engineering solutions?

· Graphene oxide place in the #renewables energy future of #Greece.

· The future of materials' engineering #research.

· Boosting the research-#industry relationships.

· The European and national #innovation #ecosystem’s #challenges.

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Dr Kyriaki Sonidou (President and co-founder of the Pontian Society of the United Kingdom. President of the Hellenic Medical Society and the Vice- President of the Greek Society of professionals and scientists in the UK), Kleanthis Kriakidis (Policy Advisor – Negotiator – Public Relations Expert - Political Analyst), George Meneshian (the Middle East and Caucasus Studies. International affairs consultant. Research co-ordinator of the Centre for Russia, Eurasia and Southeastern Europe (Panteion University)) and I, discuss:

· Why does the Greek diaspora not support the internationalisation of the Pontic Greeks genocide as the Armenian diaspora did for the Armenian genocide?

· What have the Pontic Greek societies done so far worldwide in the countries they reside in to prioritise and push forward an agenda?

· What has the role of the Greek governments been?

· Why is it important to recognise the Pontic Greeks genocide worldwide?

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In this episode, Dr Stephanos Nitodas, a chemical engineer, entrepreneur, now member of the Faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering (Stony Brook University, NY), and a specialist in nanomaterial hybrids (carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, polymers) discusses:

· vital aspects of carbon-based novel materials at the nanoscale and their hybridisation,

· nanomaterials importance to the renewables ecosystem by providing superior properties to energy systems,

· engineers becoming entrepreneurs as they are gifted with a can-do attitude, managing projects and solving complex problems, willing to learn and gain customers' trust,

· the benefits of collaboration of SMEs with large companies and the importance of supporting SMEs to design the future economy,

· the continuous added value of chemical engineers to the society and the economy

and

· giving confidence to young chemical engineers while preparing them to face reality.

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Mat Santamouris, the Anita Lawrence Professor of High-Performance Architecture at the University of New South Wales in Australia, is my guest this week.

Professor Santamouris discusses combating urban climate change through the synergy of research and perceptions, science and politics:

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Professor Michael Bernitsas, the Mortimer Cooley Chair of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Director of the Marine Renewable Energy Laboratory and Chief Technology Officer of a start-up engineering company, Vortex Hydro Energy.

Professor Bernitsas and I discuss how the vortex-induced vibrations, mostly known for damaging structures, but less known as part of the mechanism of propulsion of schools of fish, can be utilised in a bladeless technology to produce hydropower.

We also talk about:

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Dr Celia Hadjichristodoulou, a specialist in Entrepreneurship and Management of SMEs, both from a practical and an academic perspective, founder and general director of GrantXpert, discusses vital aspects of fostering entrepreneurship and leadership across education, innovation and businesses:

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Professor Andrew Delios of the Department of Strategy & Policy and the Vice-Dean of MSc Programs of the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) discusses:

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Why are education and learning so important? Education is a lifelong experience defined by society's changes, the economy, science and politics. Education should remain current to foresee changes and shape humanity.

Do we need futurists in education? How will the barriers of the established mechanisms that made education the sleeping giant be lifted?

Coming guests announced at the end of the episode.

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Finding the courage to lead is through the human nature attached to specific thoughts and neural pathways. Success is all about changing our perspective, ourselves and part of our evolution to sustaining our continuation, remaining current, dreaming, hard work and having a vision.

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Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, the permanent Secretary-General of Hydrogen Europe, who has also been an active German politician and ambassador-at-large for the Greek government, talks about:

· Hydrogen becoming an enabler of other technologies.

· 2x40 Gigawatts Green Hydrogen Initiative.

· Europe’s advantage to lead the global hydrogen economy.

· Overcoming the “electrification religion”.

· Bringing together the industries and governments towards an integral hydrogen economy.

· Engineering politics.

· Greece becoming a renewables geostrategic player in its region.

As Jorgo says: “Stick to your dreams!” (but remember, it’s also hard work!).

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Dr Valentini Pappa, the Assistant Director for Education in the Texas A&M Energy Institute, leads Texas A&M on the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Initiative.

We discuss:

· the synergistic strategies aimed at the water-energy nexus as part of the circular economy,

· the effect of the pandemic on redesigning undergraduate studies,

· the post-pandemic post-graduate studies,

· the sex bias in research and post-graduate studies,

· Equal opportunities, Equal Pay, Equal Leadership (3Es) to women in energy.

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Dr Memnia Theodorou talks us through the lessons of her journey from dentistry through sailing to psychology and gives us a taste of how to live our lives.

We also discuss:

· the importance of mentorship and networking

· the pandemic as a collective trauma

· being “rich” as the people who surround us

· why we don’t follow our dreams

· the human nature attached to specific thoughts and neural pathways

· overnight success

· entrepreneurship and making smart decisions

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Over a year ago, I started the Global Greek Influence podcast. The podcast explores the fragmental notions glued together by my guests' personalities and the solo episodes, along with the guests’ synthesise what this podcast is about and what it represents. Why Aristotle brings together education, politics, history, technology, engineering, science and business through the Global Greeks?

Amazing guests are coming, and a surprise that will connect us further will be revealed soon!

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Dr Spyros Plakoudas, Assistant Professor at Rabdan Academy in Abu Dhabi, and I discuss the constructive disruption Greece, Cyprus, the EU, and NATO could bring to the Eastern Mediterranean, where existing and new hydrocarbon resources that largely contribute to the global economy are at play and stake.

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Marios Koutsoukos discusses the roots of the War of Independence of the Hellenes marked in 1821, about individual antiquarians binging the national heritage of Greeks in an occupied by Ottomans land, the role of the Philhellenes and the Big Powers of those times, the impact of classicism and that of philhellenism of the 19th century to the post War of Independence Greece.

Marios latest publication is translated in English from a Greek book about his Great- grandfather’s, Panagiotis Koutsoukos, journal “History, Traditions and Legends of Koroni”.

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Entrepreneurship is a multi-faceted aspect of the world today but not new to it. The terms and conditions under which entrepreneurship happens now, compared to the past, have only started to take structures and formats stemming from the governments, business and capital ventures.

Featured opinions at the Global Greek Influence podcast episodes:

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In this episode, Professor Ioannis Athanasiadis, Personal Chair of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science at Wageningen University (Netherlands). talks about:

. how automation and machine learning help big data,

· why Artificial Intelligence and Big Data alone can not bring more food and avert climate change but can help us make more informed decisions,

· how farmers can benefit from Artificial Intelligence and how these products will look like,

· Artificial Intelligence and Greek agriculture; the example of CYBELE project,

· how Artificial Intelligence for digital twins can close the nitrogen cycle in agriculture, machine learning and environmental informatics and the fourth paradigm of Jim Gray,

· if the fourth paradigm in research could be used in the renewables and more engineering sectors other than the environmental informatics,

and

· Social behaviours are informing ethics in innovation—Big Data; Socio-Environmental Systems (SES) modelling.

You can find out out more about Ioannis and his work at http://www.athanasiadis.info/.

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How ready are we to produce groundbreaking technology beyond the nature that surrounds us and what our planet offers?

· Is our space exploration going to give us a better outlook on what is out there?

· Are we missing out on some of the mechanisms of physics?

· Are we doomed to fail as long as we are bombarded with technology that already surrounds us?

· How easy is it to energy transition or shape future technology on a blank canvas?

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In the second part of this two parts' episode, Orestis Omran, Partner in the Brussels Office of DLA Piper and the Head of EU- Greek Practice, an expert in EU regulatory matters in the energy, banking and infrastructure sectors and co-founder of the initiatives Brain Gain and Consensus, joins me to discuss:

· How reviewing the industry legislation with the direct involvement of the industry and launching market development programs can boost and sustain the energy economy in Greece.

· Orestis opinion as co-founder of the initiatives of Brain Gain and Consensus on extending the coordination of the Greek soft power.

· How the pandemic taught us we live in a world and consequently an economy of co-dependence between national governments and large organisations decisions.

· If and how Greece could “star” in the present.

· Why we are afraid of failing and equally afraid of succeeding.

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In the first part of this two parts' episode, Orestis Omran, Partner in the Brussels Office of DLA Piper and the Head of EU- Greek Practice, an expert in EU regulatory matters in the energy, banking and infrastructure sectors and co-founder of the initiatives Brain Gain and Consensus, discusses:

· The current status of renewables in Greece

· the oil and gas industries future in the EU,

· the feasibility of the EU Green Deal to the eyes of the investors,

· the delignification of the Western Macedonia region,

· if Hydrogen is in the plans of the Greek government and the Ministry of Energy,

· if Greece could become a hub of renewables in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Stay tuned for the second part of the interview, next Sunday.

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In the second and last part of the episode “The past defines us”I am with Marios Koutsoukos, a PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool.

Marios talks briefly about how we perceive religion and faith. Is it in the same as our ancestors did?

If Romans manipulated philosophy and history as we read it today.

How Plotinus, a famous Roman philosopher marked the end of logos and the beginning of faith, as we understand today.

What unique events we broadly know such as the Burn of Alexandria’s library and the destruction of Serapeum, marked.

As Marios concluded, those who did not know and study history were doomed to repeat it.

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In this two parts episode, I am with Marios Koutsoukos, a PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool (School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology).

In the first part of this episode Marios and I discuss the crucial role of the Roman Empire where today’s misconceptions of reality, everyday life find their roots, Roman manipulation of the Greek (Hellenic) culture, how principles of the ancient Greek culture are used and applied today and were distorted by the Romans:

· how propaganda serves as a tool to survive an empire or governance,

· the relevance of Roman and ancient Greek political systems to today’s world,

· if philosophy’s influence was as great as we might perceive in Greek politics, the pro-Roman invasion,

· Pythagoras cross-cutting mathematics, religion and the first banking system.

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Why an engineer is not defined only by technology, today?

Why are we privileged now?

Why is this the era of self-actualisation and not just of the 4th and soon to be, the 5th industrial revolution?

Why are we both students and teachers in life?

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Sustainability coupled with Climate change is a topic that transcends sectors of the economy, the society and continents. We might wonder what it should take to reach a sustainable environment and technologies in our everyday lives.

What could bring together communicators, policymakers, politicians and academics to deliver a sustainable environment and technologies, benefiting the society and the economy?

Featured opinions at the Global Greek Influence podcast episodes:

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Lieutenant Colonel Jake Sotiriadis (PhD) Chief of Strategic Foresight and Futures at US Air Force Headquarters at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, talks about his Greek connection, his choice of having a military career. We also discuss:

· futurism

· disruption in ground-breaking innovation

· redefining globalisation

· trend analysis as a tool for historical analysis

· the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East

· why we should expect to see more intervention by NATO

· networking ideologies: the Chinese Neo-Confucianism and Russian Neo-Eurasianism

· democratizing technology and the social contract

· the Chinese influence on the African continent

· space enterprises

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During the past months, I could not help but ask based on guests’ expertise what the current and future situation could be in the energy and renewables sector and the innovation business.

Featured opinions at the Global Greek Influence podcast:

· Evangelos Karambelas (Middle River Power LLC, CELI): Hellenic-American civic engagement and energy deals- new opportunities

· Prof. Greg Stephanopoulos (MIT): Frontiers in Chemical Engineering

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Maria Andrielou works with the Chemical Industry for over 10 years. Having a background in linguistics, became a communicator in cross-cultural and international relations led by her insensitivity to injustice. She was working for the European Chemical Industry Council in Brussels when she realised that everything around us and inside us is Chemistry, while communicating Bioeconomy to stakeholders, policymakers and the institutions. She has led the first-of-its-kind, in Greece, investment in large-scale production and biorefinery of microalgae biomass in Thessaloniki. Now, she is the Head of Marketing and Corporate Communication of Plankton First S.A. (Nano Algae Solutions AG). Maria is also a member of the Greek Bioeconomy Forum, led by the private sector and the only platform in Greece and in the Greek language that promotes bioeconomy.

We discuss:

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In the last part of this episode, with Elly Symons, we discuss:

the World Hellenic Interparliamentary Association #WHIA for the #diaspora

and

the #Justice for #Cyprus movement,

Finally, as Elly says: "We are not here forever".

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Elly Symons, with her Greek and Cypriot heritage, embodies the title of this two-part episode's content: a woman as a multidimensional soul.

We discuss:

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In the second and last part of the interview with Dr Konstantinos Kakosimos, associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University in Qatar, we discuss:

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In the first part of "Educational and Renewable Energy approaches in Chemical Engineering", Dr Konstantinos Kakosimos from the Texas A&M University in Qatar joins to discuss:

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How does Carl Jung's "Collective unconscious"  link to gut bacteria and COVID-19? Chemical Engineering playing with the psychology terminology and the current denial of science.

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Today, you are listening to the second and last part of the interview with Dr Popi Konidari, Head of the Climate Change Policy Group (CCPG) of the Energy Policy and Development Centre at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.

We discuss:

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In this episode and next Sunday, in "Energy policy and roadmaps- Part 2", I am with Dr Popi Konidari. Dr Konidari is Head of the Climate Change Policy Group (CCPG) of the Energy Policy and Development Centre, whose acronym in Greek is KEPA, at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.

In this first part of "Energy policy and roadmaps", we discuss:

KEPA organises the 13th International Conference on "Energy and Climate Change" between the 7 and 9 of October 2020.

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A little bit about becoming an academic in chemical engineering and wondering what would be the steps or the environment that would allow especially engineers, scientists and future entrepreneurs to pinpoint their uniqueness and individual talent and potential?

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In this episode, my guest is Dr Christos Dimas, the deputy minister of Development and Investments, in charge of Research, Innovation and Technology.

Christos talks about developing an effective innovation-ecosystem and a long-term development strategy in linking development and investment with research. Pre-requisites are (i) the improvement of the regulatory and business environment and (ii) a reform of the Greek R&D system, which the current government addresses but has not been done as intensively in the past, through:

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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the School of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), talks about:

· biotechnology and metabolic engineering;

· sustainability and the chemical industry;

· what chemical engineers bring to biotechnology and metabolic engineering;

· weblabs in chemical engineering programmes;

· the role models and mentors;

· how academic Institutions can power economic growth;

· the academia as a stakeholder in entrepreneurship;

· sustaining personal and professional excellence and high standards;

· lessons for making Greece a technological hub.

Themistoklis Zanidis, a retired officer of the Hellenic Navy, author at hellenicdailynewsny.com, a news blog for the Hellenic Diaspora in US, Canada, and the World, now a research intern at the Institute of International Relations in Greece, studied Cultural Studies (of Hellenic Civilization) and soon to start Masters on Global Policies and UN at Rutgers University in the US, is our episode's guest.

We talk about:

the importance of culture and history in diplomacy,

the selling and Achilles heel points of the Chinese strategic culture,

the pitfalls for the African and the Middle-East countries relations with China,

the introvert EU,

the new block of China, Russia, and Turkey

and

the transition of the UN in its global role.

How Pablo Picasso and George Braque, who revolutionised modernism by developing cubism can inform collaboration in international business? Is an entrepreneur born or made? What is the key to women entrepreneurship? How risky is innovation considered for international businesses?

Professor Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki is an extrovert, internationally oriented individual, a citizen of the world who absorbs the positive aspects picking up at different locales and a visual person researching the synergy between arts and international business. She is Chair of International Business at the University of Vienna, in Austria and Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School, in the UK.

A monologue on CO2 emissions, transportation, the oil industry, the biofuel industry, governments, the UN, the EU, the academia, research and innovation and the lack of groundbreaking technologies.

Vivian Chiona is a psychologist specialised in Child and Adolescent Psychology and Health Psychology. Vivian is the founder and CEO of the expatnest.com. We talk about:

- why it is important to have someone who trusts you and lifts you up;

- the importance of acknowledging our achievements and be equally happy for those of others;

- the significance of being appreciated professionally;

- that our time is short and precious to be wasted in a toxic work environment or a relationship;

- the steps to identify the main characteristics of the right partner (https://www.expatnest.com/love-and-the-right-match-for-you/);

- women challenges based on misconceptions by others or within themselves.

Dr Kyriaki Sonidou is a doctor specialised in Cardiology and a graduate of Law, co-founder and President of the Pontian Society of the United Kingdom, President of the Hellenic Medical Society of the UK, Goodwill Ambassador and Head of Health Diplomacy in the UK of the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy. Dr Sonidou talks about COVID-19, the obstacles to overcome for the internationalisation of the Pontian Genocide, why women still face challenges professionally, how success comes by following the flow and if one kicks you down is a push forward.

What would the present and future be, if we did not carry within us, the past as lessons, the lessons of life? History is the lessons of life; our own lives and the lives of others, of whom we are descendants.

How did Kosta Mavroulakis at the age of 16 realised he wanted to become an entrepreneur, in his early 20s the Digital Development Director of the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) securing £3.5m from the UK Government’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and now super connecting the Technology industry?

I meet again with Marios Koutsoukos to talk about pandemics in fiction novels and reality, as experienced by the human mind, regardless of time, space, social and technological achievements. “The Last Man” vs “The masque of the red death”: revealing our true selves and our finding our purpose vs being consumed by events.

Vasileios Inglezakis, a fellow chemical engineer, with miles of experience in research business and the academia, talks to the Global Greek Influence from Kazakhstan, about the magic of zeoponics and their importance to the following Mars mission, that technology has been lobbied but should remain the creative field of a researcher, the future of humanity is found in the bio- and info- technology and why the latter should not compromise the freedom of humanity, which remains our number one value. 

Evangelos Karambelas, born in Greece, raised in Canada, currently living in the US and senior analyst for an investment platform focusing on US power generation assets talks about how the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) establishes and secures energy deals in the East Meditteranean between Greece, Cyprus, Israel and the US, his fellowship with the Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI), why it is a good time to invest in renewable energy infrastructure during the pandemic and the difference between being constantly curious and aimlessly curious, as a constant distraction. 

Yannis (John) Nomikos, a sociologist, specialised in business intelligence consultancy regarding security issues in the Balkans, North Africa and Mediterranean region, founder and director of the ThinkTank Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS) (www.rieas.gr) talks about national security, the tensions in the Greek- Turkish borders and Dr Shohan's (former senior analyst in Israeli Defence Forces- IDF military intelligence and the Ministry of Defence, a specialist in chemical and biological warfare in the Middle East and worldwide) article titled "China and Viruses: The Case of Dr Xiangguo Qiu".

My thoughts on the coronavirus, “From the Earth to the moon” and the American Space Program, the flu pandemics, Democritus “atom theory of the Universe” and Aristotle, "pleonexia" and David Icke.

How to successfully navigate the challenges and opportunities associated with discovering a dream career and adapting to a new country? Dominika Miernik, career coach and business idea generator discusses how motivation, rewarding, permission to allow flexibility to ourselves, plunge into the local culture when living abroad will enable us to make significant changes to our professional and personal lives.

A solocast on the past 48 hours events taking place at the borders of Greece-Turkey. All humans are political beings, and as such, I express my personal opinion by reading about the events, not the news published and statements as non-expert but solely conveying my opinion as a democratic civilian who seeks the truth. On Turkey, Syria, Greece and the bully Sultan (aka dictator) Erdogan.

Kleanthis Kyriakidis, proud of his Pontic and Islandic ancestry, an assistant professor at the American University in UAE and former captain of the Greek (Hellenic) Navy, talks about the Middle East, misconceptions, objectivity through history and priorities in life.

Dimitris Ipsakis, Assistant Professor, at the School of Production Engineering and Management, talks about renewable energy, God's place in science, and what part of our character is decisive to choosing our profession or specialisation to feel more powerful.

I met Tassos Natsakis to talk about what it means living without nationality; that different cultures are alternative perspectives of universal human values, stoicism bringing mindfulness and that "the grass is not greener on the other side". Tassos was born in Thessaloniki, lived in Belgium, now located in Romania with his wife and son. As a mechanical and biomedical engineer, he works in the field of robotic rehabilitation

In this episode, Nelson Zambrano collaborated with Global Greek Influence. Nelson was born in the US by Colombian parents, moved briefly to Colombia during his childhood. He talked about his life lessons in the US army when he revisited Colombia, the impact 9/11 had in his decisions, how he got into the Real Estate business and his podcast "Invest in America", and why our actions determine our feelings.

Meeting with Victor Osioh of the "Diaspora Chiefs" podcast: "We are all connected in search of happiness". "Happinness is infectious and a choice, connecting to people is a choice". "Resilience comes from owneship of ourselves". "Success is about being happy of the path we choose". 

Marijana took control of her life by identifying her own needs and not others expectations. She now introduces us to "Busyness for Happiness". We are most productive by focusing on our ourselves and entrepreneurship is about our self-expression.

Matilda talks about her ex-pat story: how strangers can enlighten our lives, becoming a PR expert after studying law and now a podcaster with "Coffee with Matilda- A journey to self", connecting us to our true selves which reflects our professional journey. Things happen for a reason; what we perceive as bad moments can save us from disasters.

Dr Dimitrios Kontziampasis talks about how he meets challenges in the academic environment, the Greek academia vs UK university, and how persistence, respect and values give one perspective in multidisciplinary engineering.

What if you decide to quit active research and communicate Science instead? Theo Anagnostopoulos, the founder of SciCo, talks about his journey and challenges he meets personally and professionally.

Marios Koutsoukos, an author of fantasy, historical fiction and non-fiction and lyrics writer of Greek and international extreme heavy metal bands, talks about how history inspires fantasy and vice versa, turning history and fantasy into lyrics and books. Motto: Die with no regrets.

I always thought there is more to having a career. Life is about dreaming and dreaming brings creation.