Mr. Nikos ZAHARIS is the director of SEERC. His goal is to expand SEERC’s research agenda and strengthen research partnerships internationally and in the South East European Region focusing on issues of economic and regional development, IT policy and social development. Mr. Zaharis has an MSc degree in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, USA as well as a series of continuous education certificates on various management topics.
Mr. Zaharis has more than 15 years experience as a consultant and manager working for industrial as well as public sector organisations on issues ranging from management of innovation to environmental management, economic and regional development in Greece and in a series of eastern European countries. During his career he worked on issues of competitiveness and Information Society, capacity building for trade development and FDI attraction, public awareness for Intellectual Property Rights (2005) and Small and Medium Size enterprise Development in the countries of South East Europe. He directed the establishment of the i4G Incubator (www.i4G.gr) in Thessaloniki, Greece (2003).