The new Deputy Minister of Energy and the Environment is Nikos Tsafos, the former Special Adviser to the Government on Energy, following the reshuffle announced by the government.

Mr Tsafos has extensive experience in the area he undertakes, which are the energy issues of the ministry. He holds the Headquarters of James Schlesinger for Energy and Geopolitics at the Washington Strategic and International Strategic Studies Center (CSIS), while in his experience, he has collaborated with companies; financial organizations and governments on top of 30 countriesspecializing in strategy, entry into markets, project development and gas marketing and LNG and some of the most complex energy projects in the world.

Mr Tsafos is also president and leader of Enalytica, the company he founded with Janak Meyer in 2014, based in Washington. Prior to the founding of Enalytica, Mr. Tsafos worked for seven and a half years at PFC ENERGYwith the responsibility of Providing Counseling Services On the global gas market, and was also in charge of the Department of Research on World Gas Market of the same company.

He has also served in the Hellenic Air Force and had been involved in the Greek shipowner investment in the Greek Air Force in the military. Chinese yards.

At the same time, he is a regular news commentator and has been mentioned in the New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Bloomberg and has appeared in CNN, NBC, BBC. , NPR, Al Jazeera et al. networks.

He also has authored many articles about Greek crisis: The blog it maintained from 2010 to 2013 had been registered as one of the top European Economic Blog (“Europe ‘Top Economic Blogs”) by the acclaimed Social Europe Journal, while in 2013 the book “Beyond Debt: The Greek Crisis in Context” was published.

From 2016 to 2019, taught also to postgraduate course for natural gas at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

The new Undersecretary of Energy holds BA in International Relations and Economics from Boston University and MA in international relations by Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), while being a Professional Lecturer in the SAIS program for energy, environment and natural resources.