Pantoleon (Pantelis) Skayannis

Professor

Infrastructure Policy

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CV

Dr. Skayannis is Professor of Infrastructure Policy and Director of the Research Unit of Infrastructure, Technology Policy and Development in the Department of Planning and Regional Development at the University of Thessaly (DPRD-UTH) He is a qualified architect (Thessaloniki, GR) and holds an MA and PhD in urban and regional studies (Sussex, UK). He has been awarded three Pan-Hellenic architectural prizes and two distinctions related to teaching of entrepreneurship. He has been chairman of DPRD-UTH for four years and member of the University senate for six years, as well as member of several University committees and international and national congress organisation committees. Today he is the director of the “European Regional Development Studies” Master’s Programme of DPRD (taught in English) and of the Unit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the University of Thessaly. He has extensive experience as a researcher in infrastructure development and as a regional analyst and planner (60 research projects). During 2009 he was a visiting professor at Newcastle University (CURDS), UK. He has published widely in his fields of research (120 publications of all kinds) and is author/editor/co-editor of five books, Infrastructure Programming Policy: Athens-Piraeus (Stamulis, 1994), Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policies in the European Periphery: a Research Agenda (U.Thess Press, 2002), Pelion and Sustainable Development (U.Thess Press, 2004), The Context, Dynamics and Planning of Urban Development: a collection of papers (U.Thess Press, 2008), Passion, Perseverance and Vision: nine windows of opportunity – nine entrepreneurial stories (U.Thess Press, 2008).
Prof. Skayannis is one of the two national representatives of Greece to the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and member of the Executive Committee of AESOP as well as and one of the two AESOP representatives to the Global Planning Education Association Network- GPEAN.
Prof. Skayannis was recently appointed by the Mayor of Athens as the representative of the Athens Municipality to the executive board of the Organization for the Master Plan of Athens. In June 2011 he was elected Dean of the School of Engineering of the University of Thessaly.

Academic interests

Infrastructures and New Technologies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Cities and Subterannean Structures, Tourism and Alternative Tourism and Transport and Communication Networks and Development.

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