Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos,
Professor

Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos is a Professor in Data Science at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Thessaly, with a focus on smart city and digital business. He was a Special Advisor to the Mayor of Trikkaia where he was the architect of the smart city of Trikala, as well as an Expert of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in matters of Electronic Government and Electronic Diplomacy, executive of "The Information Society" S.A., while he was employed in several companies and organizations and managed numerous research programs.

He is the Director of the “Intelligent Production Systems and Smart Cities” Research Institute and the Director of the Postgraduate Program in Agile Management at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

He is a member of numerous committees, worth mentioning working for the ITU (Rapporteur of Q13 of the SG5), he is the head of the Smart and Sustainable cities’ working group for the Greek Standards, the Associate Editor of the IET Smart Cities journal etc.

He is the author and editor of several book collections, which can be located in Cities, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Government Information Quarterly (ElSevier), ACM Computing Surveys monograph for Springer etc. His research interests concern, among others, smart city, e-Government, Enterprise Architecture, Strategic Management, etc.

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