Global Greek Influence- Giota Pimenidou

In this two parts episode, I am with Marios Koutsoukos, a PhD candidate in History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool (School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology). In the first part of this episode Marios and I discuss the crucial role of the Roman Empire where today’s misconceptions of reality, everyday life find their roots, Roman manipulation of the Greek (Hel...

Why an engineer is not defined only by technology, today? Why are we privileged now? Why is this the era of self-actualisation and not just of the 4th and soon to be, the 5th industrial revolution? Why are we both students and teachers in life? Music: "Fortitude" by Lance Conrad Source: Storyblocks

Sustainability coupled with Climate change is a topic that transcends sectors of the economy, the society and continents. We might wonder what it should take to reach a sustainable environment and technologies in our everyday lives. What could bring together communicators, policymakers, politicians and academics to deliver a sustainable environment and technologies, benefiting the society and the...

This episode showcases some of the views of the Global Greek Influence guests based on their specialisation and what they see as key to China’s strategic plan globally. Featured opinions at the Global Greek Influence podcast: Themis Zanidis (political analyst, international affairs): “Strategic changes in global affairs- Culture and history in diplomacy” Dr John Nomikos (Research Institute for Eur...

Lieutenant Colonel Jake Sotiriadis (PhD) Chief of Strategic Foresight and Futures at US Air Force Headquarters at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, talks about his Greek connection, his choice of having a military career. We also discuss: · futurism · disruption in ground-breaking innovation · redefining globalisation · trend analysis as a tool for historical analysis · the eastern Mediterranean and...

During the past months, I could not help but ask based on guests’ expertise what the current and future situation could be in the energy and renewables sector and the innovation business. Featured opinions at the Global Greek Influence podcast: · Evangelos Karambelas (Middle River Power LLC, CELI): Hellenic-American civic engagement and energy deals- new opportunities · Prof. Emmanuella Plakoyanna...

Maria Andrielou works with the Chemical Industry for over 10 years. Having a background in linguistics, became a communicator in cross-cultural and international relations led by her insensitivity to injustice. She was working for the European Chemical Industry Council in Brussels when she realised that everything around us and inside us is Chemistry, while communicating Bioeconomy to stakeholders...

In the last part of this episode, with Elly Symons, we discuss: the Return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece coinciding in #2021 with the 200 years anniversary of the #independence revolution of the #Hellenes from the Ottoman Empire her activity with: the World Hellenic Interparliamentary Association #WHIA for the #diaspora and the #Justice for #Cyprus movement, Turkey’s future based on curren...

Elly Symons, with her Greek and Cypriot heritage, embodies the title of this two-part episode's content: a woman as a multidimensional soul. We discuss: How setting a balanced life model with milestones and having expectations can overcome a life-threatening disease, disability, and economic hardship. Psychology and archaeology- where and how we came from; as a continuous narrative as the relation...

In the second and last part of the interview with Dr Konstantinos Kakosimos, associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University in Qatar, we discuss: The split of mechanical and chemical engineering in the 1930s and the future of the disciplines, Chemical Engineers role in #airpollution prevention and mitigation, The beauty of applied and fundamental #research is not to forget...

In the first part of "Educational and Renewable Energy approaches in Chemical Engineering", Dr Konstantinos Kakosimos from the Texas A&M University in Qatar joins to discuss: how augmented reality mixes with Chemical Engineering, the IChemE Hutchison Medal awarded for both practical and wide-ranging, philosophical or thought-provoking published papers, the inner peace of professional achieveme...

How does Carl Jung's "Collective unconscious"  link to gut bacteria and COVID-19? Chemical Engineering playing with the psychology terminology and the current denial of science. Music: "Fortitude" by Lance Conrad               "Epic trailer" by Ihor Vitsinskyy Source: Storyblocks

Today, you are listening to the second and last part of the interview with Dr Popi Konidari, Head of the Climate Change Policy Group (CCPG) of the Energy Policy and Development Centre at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. We discuss: The past government’s market and economic connections among (i) research innovation in the Greek academia and the Energy Policy and Development Centre of...

In this episode and next Sunday, in "Energy policy and roadmaps- Part 2", I am with Dr Popi Konidari. Dr Konidari is Head of the Climate Change Policy Group (CCPG) of the Energy Policy and Development Centre, whose acronym in Greek is KEPA, at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. In this first part of "Energy policy and roadmaps", we discuss: Why energy policy and in particular policy r...

A little bit about becoming an academic in chemical engineering and wondering what would be the steps or the environment that would allow especially engineers, scientists and future entrepreneurs to pinpoint their uniqueness and individual talent and potential? Please, leave your comments or message your feedback to Twitter @greek_global, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/globalgreekinfluence/ or...

In this episode, my guest is Dr Christos Dimas, the deputy minister of Development and Investments, in charge of Research, Innovation and Technology. Christos talks about developing an effective innovation-ecosystem and a long-term development strategy in linking development and investment with research. Pre-requisites are (i) the improvement of the regulatory and business environment and (ii) a r...

In the second part of the episode “Geopolitics at the Eastern Mediterranean” recorded on the 27th of July 2020, Kleanthis Kyriakidis (AUE- American University of Emirates) talks about #Turkey and #Russia mixing #politics with #religion, the #delimitation of #maritime boundaries between #Greece and Turkey, the #EU and its lack of support to its member states, #Greece and #Cyprus based on #Turkey ’...

I met again Kleanthis Kyriakidis, Associate Professor at the American University of Emirates #AUE , Department Chair of the BA in #Security and #Strategic Studies and recorded this episode on 27- July-2020, before the #EEZ #agreement between #Egypt and #Greece . In the first part of the episode, we talk about #Turkey ’s #revisionism at the Eastern Mediterranean, the #arabworld and the role of #Qat...

Professor Greg Stephanopoulos, the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the School of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), talks about: · biotechnology and metabolic engineering; · sustainability and the chemical industry; · what chemical engineers bring to biotechnology and metabolic engineering; · weblabs in chemical enginee...

Themistoklis Zanidis, a retired officer of the Hellenic Navy, author at hellenicdailynewsny.com, a news blog for the Hellenic Diaspora in US, Canada, and the World, now a research intern at the Institute of International Relations in Greece, studied Cultural Studies (of Hellenic Civilization) and soon to start Masters on Global Policies and UN at Rutgers University in the US, is our episode's gues...

How Pablo Picasso and George Braque, who revolutionised modernism by developing cubism can inform collaboration in international business? Is an entrepreneur born or made? What is the key to women entrepreneurship? How risky is innovation considered for international businesses? Professor Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki is an extrovert, internationally oriented individual, a citizen of the world who abso...

A monologue on CO2 emissions, transportation, the oil industry, the biofuel industry, governments, the UN, the EU, the academia, research and innovation and the lack of groundbreaking technologies.

Vivian Chiona is a psychologist specialised in Child and Adolescent Psychology and Health Psychology. Vivian is the founder and CEO of the expatnest.com. We talk about: - why it is important to have someone who trusts you and lifts you up; - the importance of acknowledging our achievements and be equally happy for those of others; - the significance of being appreciated professionally; - that our...

Dr Kyriaki Sonidou is a doctor specialised in Cardiology and a graduate of Law, co-founder and President of the Pontian Society of the United Kingdom, President of the Hellenic Medical Society of the UK, Goodwill Ambassador and Head of Health Diplomacy in the UK of the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy. Dr Sonidou talks about COVID-19, the obstacles to overcome for the internationalisation...

What would the present and future be, if we did not carry within us, the past as lessons, the lessons of life? History is the lessons of life; our own lives and the lives of others, of whom we are descendants.