Yannis Charalabidis is Professor of Digital Governance in the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of the University of Aegean. In parallel, he serves as Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit of the University, designing and managing youth entrepreneurship activities, and Head of the Digital Governance Research Centre, coordinating policy making, research and pilot application projects for governments and enterprises worldwide. He has more than 25 years of experience in designing, implementing, managing and applying complex information systems as project manager, in Greece and Europe. He has been employed for 10 years as an executive director in SingularLogic Group, leading software development and company expansion in Greece, Eastern Europe, India and the US.
He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences, while actively participating in international standardisation committees and scientific bodies. In 2016 he was nominated as the 8th most productive writer in the world, among 9500 scholars in the Electronic Government domain, according to the Washington University survey. He is Best Paper Award winner in the International IFIP e-Government Conference (2008,2012, 2016), winner of the first prize in OMG / Business Process Modelling contest (2009) and 2nd prize winner in the European eGovernment Awards (2009).