Theodore G. ChadjipadelisTheodore Chadjipadelis is a Professor of Applied Statistics at the Department of Political Science in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the Head of Laboratory of Applied Political Research and also Director of the MSc programs Political Anaysis and Governance-Regional Development. He is also the Head of the Research Centre “Observatory for Democracy in Balkans, Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean”. He taught Statistics, Mathematics, Electoral Analysis, Governance, Local and Regional Government, Decision Theory in the Aristotle University as well as in the University of Thessaly and the Hellenic Open University. He has published more than 100 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings in Greece and abroad relating to Electoral Analysis, Public Opinion analysis, laboratory planning, Applied Statistics, Civil and Regional Planning. He is the Head of the Committee for Control of Public Surveys (established following agreement of the Committee with the Ministry of Media). From April 2010 till 2012 he was Board Member of “Information Society SA” and since 2011 till 2015 he was President of the Managing Committee at the University of Western Macedonia. He was a member of the Special Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Interior Decentralization and E-government for the new architecture of Administration and Regional Administration as well as the Special Committee for the electoral law. He has been member of the National Committee for Administrative Reform of the Ministry of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization (as a representative of Aristotle University). He has been also a member of the scientific Committee of the “Institute of Local Government” (Κ.Ε.Δ.Κ.Ε-Τ.Ε.Δ.Κ.Ν.Α.). He has also been representative of the Hellenic Ministry of Education in EUROSTAT and national representative at FP6 Initiative 7 (Citizens and Governance in Knowledge Society). Read More Read Less