Education
Graduate “Anatolia” College, Thessaloniki, 1962
Graduate Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dept. of Agricultural Sciences, 1967
Dr. (h.c.), KINGSTON University, England
Dr. (h.c.) INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC UNIVERSITY

Professional career
Chairman REDESTOS - Efthymiadis Agrotechnology Group, established 1935. A leading business group in Greece and Southeast Europe in the field of Agricultural technology, supplies and services.

Social activities
Today:

• Chairman & CEO Thessaloniki Innovation & Technology Center – Thess INTEC S.A.
• Founding member of THEOPHANO prize, Governing council
• Chairman of the Business Information and Clearing Center (BICC)
• President of the Association for Democracy in the Balkans

In the past:

• President of the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece, (1993-97)
• President of the Northern Greece Businessmen’s Cultural Association, (2004-10)
• Chairman of the STABILITY PACT / Business Advisory Council for Southeast Europe, Brussels, (2005-06)
• Chairman of the Business and Cultural Development Centre – KEPA, (2015-17)
• President of the Thessaloniki Technology Park
• President of the Hellenic Crop Protection Association (1986-88)
• Member by Excellence of the Board of the Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2006-15)
• Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Thessaloniki (1994-2022)

Contributed to several European think tanks on development and cooperation in Southeast European region.