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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In this special episode, my guests are Orestis Omran (DLA Piper partner at the Brussels Office), Maria Andrielou (Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications at Plankton First S.A., Head of Marketing and Communication as Advisor to the Danish gMendel) and Dr Vassilis Inglezakis (Reader in Chemical Engineering, Research Director at the University of Strathclyde).

We talk about

· keeping your goals through several rounds of negotiations,

· the importance of communication,

· keeping consistent teams and the dynamics within the team,

· understanding of the people you negotiate with, their commercial particulars and trends of a particular industry, and finding common ground, and,

· building trust during negotiations.

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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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Marios Koutsoukos, a fiction author and PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool, discusses the links of #populism with popular opinion and #governance in the late Roman early Byzantine Empire.

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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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