Professor Christos Tarantilis is an executive with over 20 years of experience in leadership positions across varied roles and environments in academia, government and public sector (GPS) as well as in consulting industry, leading a large number of GPS projects concerning optimization and AI, mathematical programming, business analytics, ICT systems, business process re-engineering, business transformation and strategy.

As the Head of Government and Public Sector (GPS) at EY Greece, Prof. Tarantilis plays a pivotal role in EY’s engagements, across service lines, with the GPS, navigating GPS funding, understanding and identifying market needs, designing and selling innovative products and services through impactful articulation of ideas and arguments.

Prof. Tarantilis is also a management science and technology professor at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He has been included for four consecutive years (2020-2024) within the annual list of world's top 2% most influential scientists in the fields of operations research and artificial intelligence, based on the work published by a team of professors at Stanford University. In addition, having a very successful teaching record at all levels from undergraduates to business executives MBA students at AUEB, he was awarded the best teaching award for more than thirty (30) times in total. He was also elected as the Head of the Department of Management Science and Technology at AUEB.

Prof. Tarantilis was also elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament (2019-2023) and served the Hellenic Parliament's Committees related to research, innovation and technology, development and investments, environment and energy, rural development and food, infrastructure and transport, tourism, shipping and island policy as well as educational affairs. Furthermore, he was elected for three (3) consecutive times (2021-2023) as the Chairperson of the Hellenic Parliament’s Committee on Research and Technology (2021-2023), appointed as the Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and Government Spokesperson (2021) and as the Vice-President of the Greek - United States Parliamentary Friendship Group (2021-2023).

Finally, Prof. Tarantilis has also acted as member of the Board of Directors in Information Society SA (2004-2009).