European Council

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Maria Karanasiou, ECCE General Secretary

MSc. Maria Karanasiou

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Civil Engineering in National Technical University of Athens.
  • Specialization in Transport Planning & Engineering (2007);
  • “Planning for Pedestrians, One Step Forward”, Imperial College, Institution of Highways & Transportation, London, October 2008;
  • “Setting Out the Mayor's new transport priorities for London”, Institution of Highways & Transportation, London, February 2009;
  • Series of lectures that cover the wider field of Transportation organised by the independent organisation “Planning and Transport, Research and Computation”, London, November 2008 – March 2009.
     

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Appointed General Secretary of the European Council of Civil Engineers ECCE (since May 2011)
  • Appointed Special Secretary of the European Council of Civil Engineers ECCE (December 2009 - May 2011)
  • Free-lance consultant (since March 2009)
  • Atkins Ltd, London, UK (April 2008-March 2009), Assistant Transport Planner
  • Surrey County Council, Leatherhead, UK (Dec07-April08), East Highways Department of Surrey County Council, Graduate Engineer
  • National Technical University of Athens (June-July 2007), Research Assistant


MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece since 2007


PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES

  • D. Tsamboulas, I. Minis and Maria Karanasiou “Evaluation of a freight village railway connection”, presentation at the 1st International Conference “Competitiveness and complementarity of transport modes, perspectives for the development of Intermodal transport”, Chios, Greece, 2007.


Maria Karanasiou was appointed as ECCE Secretary General on 6 May 2011.