Dr. George Ioannou
Professor George Ioannou, CEO Energy Exchange Group
Dr. George Ioannou is the Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Exchange Group. He is also Professor of Operations Management at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and Director of the Management Science Laboratory of AUEB. He served as Director of the International MBA Program of AUEB and Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Virginia Tech. He received his diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and his M.Sc./DIC in Robotics and Automation from Imperial College, UK. He was a GRA at the Institute for Systems Research (University of Maryland, USA) where he received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. He is the recipient of the Microsoft Excellence in Education Award and has been honored with many Excellence Awards for his MBA courses and innovative developments. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Hellenic Railroads SA, of the Innovation Council at the Ministry of Development, of AUEB’s Senate and of AmCham’s Innovation Committee, and has served as Head of the Evaluation Committee of ΣΥΖΕΥΞΙΣ ΙΙ (Information Society SA), and Academic Coordinator of the Energy Club of AUEB’s MBA International.