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Spyros Pateras

Chairman & CEO, Hellenic Raiways Organisation (OSE), Greece

Senior Chief Executive Officer in Transportation & Infrastructure Industries | Skilled in Operations Optimization, Stakeholder Management, HR & Corporate Governance, Procurement and Contract Negotiations, Commercial Management and Business Development of Corporate Structures | Experienced in large scale Projects’ Coordination, on-time and within budget Project Completion & Multidisciplinary Personnel and Subcontractor Management. EDUCATION: 1993 - 1997:         PhD in Materials Engineering, Composite Materials, Rolls-Royce funded research,                              State Foundation Scholarship (ΙΚΥ), University of Cambridge, UK 1988 - 1993:         Bachelor’s & Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering,                              National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) 1992:                     Final Year Thesis, Ecole Centrale (Superlec), Paris, France 1991:                     Erasmus Program, University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands 1975 - 1987:          Secondary School, Athens College WORK EXPERIENCE: 2020 – present      CEO & President of the BoD                               GREEK RAILWAYS ORGANISATION (ΟΣΕ)                                Modernization of the Greek Rail Network, securing interoperability, connectivity and overall competitiveness of the Greek Rail  Transport Sector 1997 – 2020:         CEO ISTRIA CONSULTING ENGINEERS & DRILLING CONTRACTORS Business Development focussing on SDGs, Contract Negotiating & Managing, International Partnerships & Executive Relations, Financing, HR 2003 – 2020:         COUNTRY MANAGER, GREECE GEOCONSULT ZT GmbH, Salzburg, Austria Business Policy, Branch Office Management, Project Coordination, Public Relations 2007 – 2016:          COUNTRY MANAGER, GREECE WTM GmbH, Hamburg, Germany Business Policy, Branch Office Management, Project Coordination, Public Relations SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: Pateras S.K., Shaw M.C., Clegg W.J. and Clyne T.W. (1995): “The effect of metal layer thickness on the fracture of metal/ceramic laminates in bending”, in: High Performance Materials in Engine Technology, Proceedings of Topical Symposium V "High Performance Materials in Engine Technology" of the 8th CIMTEC-World Ceramics Congress and Forum on New Materials, held in Florence, June 28-July 4, 1994P. Vincenzini (Ed.), ISBN: 88-86538-08-1, pp.  445-453. Saroglou H., Antoniou A.A., Pateras S.K. (2009): "Ground improvement of clayey soil formations using stone columns. A case study from Greece." International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 493-498, DOI 10.3328/IJGE.2009.03.04.493-498. J. Ross Publishing, Inc. © 2009. OTHER: Affiliations:  Materials Institute of Royal Academy of London Greek Technical Chamber Alumni Association of Athens College, Athens, GR Alumni Association of Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK Hellenic Entrepreneurs Association (ΕΕΝΕ) Languages:        Greek (5), English (4), French (4), German (3), Spanish (2) Military Service: 1997-1998            Date of Birth:       29.01.1970