KOULOLIAS, Mr. Vasilis

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Director of eGovlab, Sweden

Wednesday, September 13th
08:30 - 12:00 | Session VI: Interactive Session | Session Chair & Breakout Group Leader
13:00 - 17:00 | Session VII: Generating solutions to lead through disruption | Session Chair & Breakout Group Leader

A social entrepreneur, technologist and mentor Vasilis has dedicated over two decades to enhance public services and the democratic process while bridging the gap between citizens and policy makers. His success to date is based on building strong relationships between the public sector, industry, civil society and the research community shifting government transformation towards inclusion, transparency and efficiency in developed and developing nations.

He is currently the Executive Director at eGovlab, Board Member of the Swedish Program for Information and Communication Technology (SPIDER) and Gov2U. During his tenure in the Industry, Civil Society and Government, he was placed amongst the Top 10 most influential players in the field of Politics and the Internet, a finalist in the INC magazine Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Indiana Growth 100 and has been featured in several books and publications including "Business@the Speed of Thought" by Bill Gates. Vasilis has published several articles. He is an Economist and Political Scientist (International Relations) from Indiana University.