My professional experience includes having served as a Merrill Lynch stock broker and Managing Director for H. J. Meyers investment banks in California; an adviser to the Social Fund of the Commission of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium; a professional consultant to the French dairy industry, Portuguese olive oil industry and the Municipality of Tilos in Greece; and the Project Coordinator of the EU LIFE-Nature Project on Tilos. My civic activities include community service as the President of the California Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce; Founder and Director of the California Council of European-American Chambers of Commerce; Board of Directors Member of the Axios Foundation and the Los Angeles Rainbow PUSH Coalition; Member of the American Civil Liberties Union, Rotary Club, Sierra Club, Audubon Society, and Founder, Vice President and Director of the Tilos Park Association. My articles and photographs have been published by newspapers and magazines in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and he has been interviewed by television and radio program journalists from Belgium, Greece, Japan, Spain, Turkey and the United States. I have contributed as a speaker to conferences organized by the European Commission, the United Nations Environment Program, Mugla University and the Mugla Chamber of Commerce in Turkey, Washington State University and the National Centre for Public Governance in Greece. In 2007, I was appointed as an Ambassador of the EU Natura 2000 Networking Program for exemplary environmental management of an EU Special Protection Area. I am currently working for the establishment of a Marine Protected Area in the Northern Cyclades group of islands in Greece.