ILIAS P. TATSIOPOULOS is a Professor in Operations Management and Logistics at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and Director of the “AthensMBA” postgraduate programme in Business Administration.  He has been active for several years as a consultant in both industrial firms and government organisations and he served as a Lecturer at the Economic University of Athens.  He studied Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NTUA (1978) and followed post-graduate studies at the TH Aachen (Germany) and the University of Lancaster (UK) under a NATO grant.  H holds a PhD (1983) in Operational Research from the University of Lancaster.  He has been a member of the Senate of  NTUA, Chairman of the  Greek Institute for Production & Operations Management and a member of the Board of the Hellenic Management Association (HMA).