Athena Coustenis elected to Academia Europaea
Astrophysicist and Komvos Partner Dr Athena Coustenis has been elected to Academia Europaea’s Earth & Cosmic Sciences section.
Astrophysicist and Komvos Partner Dr Athena Coustenis has been elected to Academia Europaea’s Earth & Cosmic Sciences section.
Four Komvos partners featured in Naftemporiki’s collector’s editionNaftemporiki has released its collector’s edition, “In the Minds of Greek Intellectuals”, bringing together 52 essays by 54 leading figures from academia and science, the economy, politics, culture, and the arts. Adopting a broad understanding of what it means to be an intellectual, the publication seeks to bring critical thinking into the public conversation and shed light on aspects of Greece’s social and economic reality that often remain beyond a narrow reading of events and statistics.The contributions span an equally broad range of topics, including democracy and institutions, war and peace, artificial intelligence, education, healthcare, the environment, the economy, historical memory, and the role of culture in the contemporary world. Contributors include, among others, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece, Lina Mendoni, Evangelos Venizelos, Yannis Stournaras, Theodosios Tassios, Titos Patrikios, George Babiniotis, Demetrios Nanopoulos, Christos Zerefos, Athanassios Fokas, Michalis Bletsas, Anastasia Kotanidou, Maria Efthymiou, Thanos Veremis, Alkistis Protopsalti, Mariza Koch, and Lambros Liavas.Among the contributors are four active partners of Komvos: Christina Koulouri, Nikiforos Diamandouros, Michalis Tiverios, and Nikos Vettas. Although their essays emerge from different academic disciplines, they converge on fundamental questions that concern every…
Professor Christina Koulouri, Rector of Panteion University and Partner of KOMVOS, has been elected a member of Academia Europaea.
International distinction for Prof. Hercules Haralambides, who was honoured with the Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award 2026 for his contribution to Maritime Economics & Logistics.
The partners of Komvos: Networks of Global Hellenism, who actively contribute to the promotion of its initiatives and activities, are presented here. Follow the hyperlink of each member to view brief biographical information. Antoniou Harris – Founder and CEO of Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd and Codrus Capital AG, Board Member of Natech SA and of Snappi Bank SA. Apostolopoulos Vasilios, Dr. – CEO of the Athens Medical Group, President of the European Institute for Economic Research (EENE). Chaniotis Angelos, Prof. – Professor of Ancient History and Classical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Chrousos George, Prof. – Emeritus Professor at NKUA, Director of the Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health & Precision Medicine, UNESCO Chair in Adolescent Health & Medicine Constantakopoulos Achilles – Chairman, Temes S.A. Coustenis Athena, Dr. – Astrophysicist, Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), at LESIA (Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique) Dangkas George, Dr. – Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Surgery (Vascular) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Director of Cardiovascular Innovation at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, former President of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center. Destouni Georgia, Prof. – Professor of Hydrology, Hydrogeology, and Water Resources, Head of the Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University. Diamantouros Nikiforos,…
George Pagoulatos is the Ambassador of Greece to the OECD, Chair of the OECD Friends of South East Europe Group.
Speech of Honorary President John Papanikolaou at the 3rd Annual Conference
Chairman Angelos Chaniotis’ Address at the 3rd Annual Conference
Professor Sotirios Theofanis, Founding Member of Komvos, was recently appointed as a member of the “Standing Committee on Port Operations and Infrastructure” (AW011) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), which is part of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).
Prof. Hercules Haralambides has been recognized as the most influential academic in the field of Shipping and Port Management according to the Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) indicator.