The Tilos Park Elections
Dear Members of the Tilos Park:
It is Election time! Thank you for your support that enabled us to arrive at this crucial moment for our Association’s development. As per Article 10 of our bylaws, the positions are:
1. President (Community relations representative; person responsible for Board of Directors members’ execution of duties).
2. Vice-president (executes also duties of Director of Association Administration and General Secretary).
3. Scientific Director (supervisor of the Scientific Committee).
4. Economic Director (executes also the duties of Treasurer).
5. Legal Director (liaison with the legal counsel officially retained by the association; the legal Director cannot serve as association legal counsel during this term of Board of Directors office).
6. Director of Strategic Growth (the development of the association business plan).
7. Director of Press (in charge of all the publications of the association and the public relations with the members of the press).
8. Director of Marketing and Business Development (in charge of the marketing, promotional and business development activities of the association).
9. Director of Purchasing (in charge of the selection of suppliers to the association).
I have the pleasure to present to you biographical notes of all who expressed an interest or have been nominated to serve our membership from a position on the Board of Directors. Thank you once again for your support and remember: Every vote is important to us!
Sincerely yours,
Konstantinos Mentzelopoulos
Director
Candidate for President
Anastasios Aliferis, MD, was born in Lahi, Laconia, Greece, on November 12, 1951. Tasos, as his friends call him, has been the elected Mayor of Tilos since 1995. During this period he has been responsible for attracting €12.585.473 in public and private investment funds for the island’s infrastructure development that have improved the quality of life for residents and visitors alike. A devoted environmentalist, Tasos initiated a campaign to ban hunting on Tilos. This successful campaign earned him the support of the majority of Tilians, 6.000 environmentalists from throughout Europe who signed a petition that was delivered to the European Parliament and an award from the Greek Society for the Protection of Nature. Tasos is the President of the Tilos 21st Century shipping company, the medical doctor of Tilos and the founder of the Tilos Telemedicine service, which has become a telemedicine pilot program for all the islands of the Mediterranean. As Mayor, Tasos commissioned the environmental study that earned Tilos the recognition of being a SPA (Special Protection Area for the Birds) and a NATURA area. Tasos is is a founding member of the Tilos Park Association and wishes to serve its membership from the position of the President.
Candidate for Vice President
Konstantinos Mentzelopoulos was born in Athens, Greece, on September 29, 1956. His long-standing career has been in business development and serving environmental and humanitarian causes. He has served as the Managing Director of H. J. Meyers & Co., Inc, the largest Californian independent investment bank, as an adviser to the Social Fund of the Commission of the European Union, as the Executive Director of The Pullman-Washington Chamber of Commerce, as the President of the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce, as the Founder and Director of the Californian Council of European-American Chambers of Commerce, as the Director of the Axios Foundation, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Rainbow Coalition, and has been a long standing member of the American Marketing Association, American Personnel Industrial Relations Association, Sierra Club, Greenpeace International, Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society, Jacque Yves Cousteau Society, WWF International, Save the Wolf Maine Coalition, Greek Ornithological Society, Save the Children International, Amnesty International, American Civil Liberties Union, Rotary International and Slow Food International. Constantine’s articles and photographs have been published on many American and European publications and he worked as a volunteer news editor for the KPCC FM radio station in California, which is part of the National Public Radio Network. Constantine resides on Tilos and he is currently working as an Adviser to the Tilos Municipality. He is the Founder and the Interim Director of the Tilos Park Association, and wishes to serve its membership from the position of the Vice President.
Candidate for Scientific Director
Aimilia Drougas, Ph.D., was born in Athens, Greece, on July 18, 1959. Aimilia is a biologist, geologist-oceanographer, professor at the Structural & Civil Department of TEI of Piraeus and general secretary of the Cetacean Rescue & Rehabilitation Research Center-ARION. She worked as a biologist for US Environmental Protection Agencies, as a chemical engineer and Q/A analyst for a ceramic microchip manufacturer, conducted geotechnical, hydro-geological, environmental and oceanographic feasibility studies for community and private sectors and specialized on management of biodiverse ecosystems and coastal protected areas. Aimilia has been trained since 1978 in underwater research and dolphin rescuing and management, as well as, marine turtle research and conservation through United Nations/Specially Protected Areas programs and the Ministries of Environment and Agriculture and the US National Coast Guard. She directed the Mediterranean Association to Save Sea Turtles, served as the President of the DELPHIS Society for the conservation of cetaceans, co-founded the Cetacean Rescue & Rehabilitation Research Center at Halkidiki, Greece, and she is a fellow member of the International Oceanographic Foundation, the National Resources Defense Council in USA, a member of the Marine Mammal Society, the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine, the European Cetacean Society, the Hellenic Chamber of Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, member of the Executive Committee on marine protection at Friends of the Earth-Greece and at the Hellenic Rescue Network “PROMETHEUS” for Natural Disasters on coastal and marine environment. In her lifetime she has also been a member or scientific advisor of Greenpeace International-Chicago’s Great Lakes, WWF International, Sierra Club, Jacque Yves Cousteau Society, Oceanic Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Underwater Research and Activities club. Aimilia is a founding member of the Tilos Park Association and wishes to serve its membership from the position of the Scientific Director.
Candidate for Financial Director
Spiridon Logothetis was born in Athens, Greece, on February 8, 1971. Spiros, as his friends call him, graduated with a degree in Business Administration/Accountancy from the University of Piraeus. Spiros has worked for the Private and Public Sector holding the positions of Accountant, Internal Financial Auditor and Financial Analyst. He is a long standing member of the Economic Chamber and he is a licensed Economic Adviser and Accountant-Tax Specialist. He resides on Tilos and he is currently working as an independent accountant and for the Citizens Information Centre of the Greek Ministry of Interior Affairs. Spiros is a founding member of the Tilos Park Association and wishes to serve its membership from the position of the Financial Director.
Candidate for Legal Director
Eleftherios Levantis, Μ. Sc., was born in Athens on January 23, 1963. He is a member of the Athens Bar Association and a Ph.D. candidate at the Athens Law School specializing on international and European Environmental Law, on the establishment and management of Marine Protected Areas in the EU. He is a Lecturer for Environmental law and policy at the Greek Police Academy and a legal counsel and consultant in environmental law for the General Secretary of the Regional Administration of Attica. He worked as a consultant for the Cypriot government on the approximation of the Cypriot Environmental legislation to the European Union environmental aquis and for the IUCN Environmental Law Center. He represented the European Public Law Center, as well as national and international non-governmental environmental organizations to the Council of Europe in Scientific Workshops as well as the Proceedings of the Bern Convention on the protection of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats. Eleftherios has consulted and represented national or international environmental organizations (Archipelagos Marine and coastal management, Mediterranean SOS Action Group, Zakynthine Ecological Movement, MEDASSET) to national authorities and he was the legal advisor of the international Environmental Organization ‘Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles’. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the bimonthly legal magazine “Environment and Law”, a member of the European Environmental Law Association, the Scientific Committee of the environmental NGO ‘Archipelagos’, the Greek Environmental Law Association, the Greek Society of Environmental law and the Heidelberg Alumni International. Eleftherios is a founding member of the Tilos Park Foundation and wishes to serve its membership from the position of the Legal Director.
Candidate for Director of Strategic Growth
Susan Hannon, PhD., is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada, Director of the Meanook Biological Research Station, and a member of the NSERC advisory panel for CWS/University Research Chairs, American Ornithologists Union, WISEST Committee (Women in Science), International Ornithological Congress, Steering Committee of the Boreal Bird Centre, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, Space Committee of the Biological Sciences Dept. of the University of Alberta, Animal Behavior Society, British Ecological Society, Canadian Nature Federation, Cooper Ornithological Society, Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Society for Conservation Biology and Ecological Society of America. Dr. Hannon has been awarded the Killam Annual Professorship, the McCalla Professorship, and the NSERC University of Alberta Research Fellowship. Susan is a founding member of the Tilos Park Foundation and wishes to serve its membership from the position of the Strategic Growth Director.
Candidate for Director of Press
Panagiotis Vouros was born in Greece on December 14, 1967. In April 1993 he graduated from the University of the Aegean with a degree in Environmental Science. His thesis objective was on the Dynamics of bacterial-phytoplanktonic systems influenced by eutrophication. After competing his military service at the Military Navy in 1994, he attended a two-year postgraduate course in the Department of Environment; Throughout his PhD candidacy, he designed his thesis on the Contribution of air-pollution levels in microenvironments on total exposure of civil population, which he nearly finished because of external, family crisis, beyond his power. Between 1997-2001, he worked in the Private Sector in various enterprises having as a main object, that of his studies. Suggestively, we report his occupation as a Research assistant for the “Air and Sante’ programmed, in cooperation with partners from England, France and Greece; in an Environmental Education programmed of air pollution and health effects, which was held by the Medical School of Athens University, other Environmental Education Centers, Phytopathological Institutes and the Mediterranean Environment Company. He has also contributed to the writing of a guide for school educators, holding the title ’Transport Networks and the Environment’ within the framework of the work ‘Planning and production of Educative Environmental material’. He has also worked in Vocational Training Centers (K.E.K.) and in a business consultancy company, as an executive, as well as a special scientific partner/consultant for the Development and Operation of a Recycling Program at the company’s headquarters. Since 1995 he has voluntarily occupied himself with Environmental Education Programs and more specifically in their Planning, Organization and Materialization, all over Greece. Panagiotis holds an Installation Systems Consultant Certificate, ISO 14000 as well as HACCP Systems. To conclude, since 1995 Panagiotis has been the president and vice-president of the Organization of Environmental Education and Culture at the Department of the Environment of which he is also the founder, as well as the Environmental Organizations’ Network for the Environmental Education in Greece. Since August 2003,he has been executing his duties as a vice-president and Public Relations and Press’ representative of the Employees’ Association of the Cyclades Prefecture. Since December 2001, he has been working for the Department of Planning and Environment of the Cyclades Prefecture, with multi-dimensional responsibilities aiming at the protection of the Environment in the Cyclades. Panagiotis is a founding member of the Tilos Park Foundation and wishes to serve its membership from the position of the Press Director.
Candidate for Director of Marketing & Business Development
Michael Kypraios was born in Rhodes on February 28, 1969. He manages the family owned Eleni Hotel and Eleni Grocery Market both located in Livadia, Tilos. He has been elected as a Member of the Tilos City Council since 2002. Michael holds the position of the President of the Tilos Hotel Owners Association, the First Secretary of the Greek Socialist Party (PASOK) branch on Tilos, the Vice President of the Tilos Cultural Association and he was a founding member of the Action Committee to ban hunting on Tilos. Michael is a founding member of the Tilos Park Foundation and wishes to serve its membership from the position of the Director for Marketing and Business Development.
Candidate for Director of Purchasing
Ilias Christofis was born in Rhodes on August 20, 1956. He is the President of Christofis Holidays and Managing Director of the Hotel Irini both in Livadia, Tilos. Ilias is an elected Member of the Tilos City Council, a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tilos 21st Century Shipping Company and a member of the Tilos Cultural Association. Ilias is a founding member of the Tilos Park Foundation and wishes to serve its membership from the position of the Director of Purchasing.
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