Ioannis P. CHOCHLIOUROS is a Telecommunications Electrical Engineer, graduated from the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), holding also a MSc (DEA) & a PhD (Doctorate) from the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI (France). He worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant in the University Paris VI, in cooperation with other European countries. His practical experience as an engineer has been mainly in telecommunications, as well as in various construction projects in Greece and the wider Balkan area. Since 1997 he has been working at the Competition Department and then as an engineer-consultant of the Chief Technical Officer of OTE (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A.), for regulatory and technical matters. He has been very strongly involved in major OTE’s national and international business activities, as a specialist-consultant for technical and regulatory affairs especially for the evaluation and adoption of innovative e-Infrastructures and e-Services. In the same context, he has worked as a consultant in the scope of international projects covering the wider telecommunications sector. He has also served as the Head of Technical Regulations Dept. of the Division for Standardization and Technical Regulations of OTE, involved in an enormous variety of issues regarding European and international standardization, with emphasis on modern technologies.He currently works as the Head of the Research Programs Section of the Labs & New Technologies Division. Under his supervision, the Section has received several awards by the European Commission, for the successful realization of European research activities. He has been involved in different European and international projects and activities and has participated either as coordinator or scientist-researcher in more than 45 European and national research programs. He is author (or co-author) of more than 125 distinct scientific and business works (i.e. books, book chapters, papers, articles, studies & reports) in the international literature.
He has also worked as Lecturer in the Hellenic Academic Sector, in specific areas of modern technologies and/or business and/or regulatory-oriented issues. He has participated in many conferences, workshops, fora and other events, in most of which as an invited speaker. He is also an active participant of various international and national associations, both of scientific and business nature.