Understanding Smart Cities

Dr. Leonidas Anthopoulos is a full Professor in data science and e-business at the University Thessaly, Greece. During his current mission and at his previous job positions (as an Expert Counselor at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a Special Advisor of the Mayor of Trikala, Greece and as an ICT project manager at the Information Society S.A. (Greece)) he planned and supervised several large-scale and critical projects, worth mentioning the smart city of Trikala. He serves as the Director of the “Intelligent Production Systems and Smart Cities” Research Institute, the Head of the Department of Business Administration and the Director of the Postgraduate Program in Agile Management at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He is a member of various committees, a Rapporteur for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), vice chairman of the Focus on Metaverse, the head of the Smart and Sustainable cities’ working group for the Greek Standards, the associate editor of various journals and the editor of book collections. He is the author of several articles published in prestigious scientific journals, book collections and international conferences. His research interests concern, among others, smart cities, digital government, data science, and strategic management.