{"id":6991,"date":"2019-05-06T13:18:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/?p=6991"},"modified":"2019-05-06T13:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:24:45","slug":"boutaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/boutaris\/","title":{"rendered":"[:el]\u039f \u0393\u03b9\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2 \u039c\u03c0\u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03ac\u03c1\u03b7\u03c2 \u03bd\u03ad\u03bf \u039c\u03ad\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 \u0394\u03a3 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf SolidarityNow[:en]Yiannis Boutaris, new Member of SolidarityNow\u2019s Board of Directors[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u03a4<\/strong>he members of SolidarityNow’s Board of Directors unanimously selected Yiannis Boutaris as the new member of the organization\u2019s Board to honor his outstanding and important work and contribution <\/strong>to the Local Government and the strengthening of civil society.<\/p>\n

“It is with great joy and excitement we welcome\u00a0 <\/em>Yiannis Boutaris, to SolidarityNow\u2019s Board of Directors, a great man, a <\/em>pillar of civil society<\/em><\/strong>\u201d, <\/em>states SolidarityNow\u2019s Chairman, Stelios Zavvos. Yiannis Boutaris, in his years of office, expanded and strengthened the local government in Thessaloniki while helping the city make<\/em> an opening to its multicultural heritage in a way that included its citizens and made them reembrace their multinational roots. <\/strong><\/em>And as he states, \u2018we opened Thessaloniki to the world. We planted the seed of openness\u2019.<\/em><\/strong> \u201cAnd there is no doubt that Yiannis Boutaris is a man who dares to fight for his ideas\u201d<\/em>, Mr. Zavvos pointed out.<\/p>\n

His initiatives have been of great contribution to both the humanitarian field, notably the refugee crisis, but also towards the protection of the environment. SolidarityNow as a whole is very proud that Yiannis Boutaris will contribute to the organization\u2019s mission with his experience and innovative social proposals for an open society.<\/p>\n

“I was aware of SolidarityNow\u2019s outstanding work long before my election as Mayor. In my years of office, I have had the opportunity to work with the organization, with which we organized activities for the benefit of the municipality and its citizens. It is an honor for me to join the Board of Directors,<\/strong> a post from which I will continue to offer to the community after my term as Mayor of Thessaloniki”, <\/em>states Yiannis Boutaris.<\/p>\n

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Yiannis Boutaris <\/strong>is a businessman, politician, Chemist graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki while also being a successful Oenologist. Since 2011 he is the Mayor of Thessaloniki. His term of office in the Municipality of Thessaloniki has been described as “a positive policy, reforming and refreshing mindset”.<\/em> During his term of office, important was his contribution to reducing financial costs, rationalizing public services and fighting corruption in the city of Thessaloniki.<\/p>\n

The Board of Directors of SolidarityNow consists of:<\/u><\/p>\n

Stelios Zavvos<\/strong> \u2013 Chairman<\/p>\n

Alivizatos Nikos<\/strong> \u2013 Honorary Professor of Constitutional Law\/University of Athens<\/p>\n

Vidalis Euthimios<\/strong> -Businessman,<\/p>\n

Diamandouros Nikiforos<\/strong> \u2013 Honorary Professor of Political Science\/University of Athens<\/p>\n

Doxiadis Aristos<\/strong> \u2013 Partner\/Venture Capital Investor<\/p>\n

Kavounidi Jenny<\/strong> \u2013 Senior Research Fellow, Center of Planning and Economic Research, Visiting Associate Professor\/Athens University of Economics and Business<\/p>\n

Matsagganis Manos<\/strong> \u2013 Associate Professor in the Department of International and European Economic Studies\/Athens University of Economics and Business<\/p>\n

Nomikou Kalipso<\/strong> \u2013 Businesswoman<\/p>\n

Christos Rozakis<\/strong> \u2013 Professor of International Public Law\/University of Athens, Vice President of the European Court of Human Rights<\/p>\n

Triantafyllidou Anna<\/strong> \u2013 Professor\/European University Institute, Florence, Italy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u03a4he members of SolidarityNow’s Board of Directors unanimously selected Yiannis Boutaris as the new member of the organization\u2019s Board to honor his outstanding and important work and contribution to the Local Government and the strengthening of civil society. “It is with great joy and excitement we welcome\u00a0 Yiannis Boutaris, to SolidarityNow\u2019s Board of Directors, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6993,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions\/6993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}