Michalis Bletsas is a researcher and director of computing systems at the MIT Media Lab
With the recommendation of the Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou and decision of the Council of Ministers, the head of the National Cybersecurity Authority is appointed the researcher and director of computing systems of the MIT Media Lab Michalis Bletsas.
The Minister of Digital Governance expressed his satisfaction at the acceptance of the proposal by Mr. Bletsa in a meeting they held yesterday, April 10, at the Ministry of Digital Governance.
Specifically, Mr. Papastergiou stated: “Mihalis Bletsas is the right person in the right position. His professional experience at both the technological and administrative levels, his research activity, his training and his composition make him the appropriate choice for the position of the Commander of the National Cyber Security Authority. I feel great satisfaction that we are joining forces with a scientist of this prestige in such a critical field as Cybersecurity. I am sure that we will have an excellent cooperation with the Commander and all the employees of the National Cyber Security Authority, which is now starting as a new Agency”.
The Commander of the National Cybersecurity Authority, Michalis Bletsas, said: “I am very happy for the opportunity given to me to contribute substantially to the digital transformation of my country and to apply, from a different, more senior position, the practical experience of decades in a particularly demanding environment. Cybersecurity is something that touches us all and its requirements should now be a major component of every digital service. I thank the Minister very much for the opportunity and the challenge and I undertake without any illusions about the difficulties of the project”.
Biography Michalis Bletsa
Graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and M.Sc. A computer engineer from Boston University, Michalis Bletsas is a researcher and director of computing systems at the MIT Media Lab. In this capacity he is responsible for the design, operation and security of all the digital infrastructure used by the laboratory to carry out its mission. He is one of the founding members of One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit company that designed and built a very low-cost laptop – a technology that aimed to help shape how the world’s children are educated. During his tenure at OLPC, he contributed to the industrial design, electronics, and software of OLPC’s XO-1 laptop.
Prior to joining Media Lab, he was a systems engineer at Aware, Inc., where he designed and wrote high-performance software libraries for Intel’s parallel distributed memory supercomputers, and worked on the implementation of ADSL technology to provide Internet access to home users.
He has an extensive consulting activity around technology and technology policy issues. He was a co-founder of two companies and a board member or consultant in many others.
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