Prof. Panayiotis Ketikidis is the Chairman of the Management Committee & Academic Director of the Doctoral Programme at the SEERC. He is an Emeritus President of the International Society of Logistics; he sits on the Board of several organisations such as: Exporters’ Association of Northern Greece Management Board; the Centre for the support of female employment and entrepreneurship; the Triple Helix Association Chapter of Greece; Thessaloniki Innovation Zone; Hellenic Business Angels Network.

Due to his expertise in regional development, entrepreneurship and growth, he was recently invited to become a key player in a partnership between Germany and Greece in terms of low carbon regional development and circular economy practices implementation.