Dimitrios Voloudakis
Dimitrios Voloudakis
Capacity Building Director
New Agriculture New Generation, Greece
Dimitris holds a PhD degree in Agronomy from Agricultural University of Athens, with a specialization in Climate Change and Agriculture. His doctoral research was funded by the EU and the Greek Ministry of Education.
He works as Capacity Building Manager in the “New Agriculture New Generation” organization. He supervised and coordinated more than 50 training and capacity building programs, involving 225 trainers and more than 7.500 young farmers and beneficiaries.
Also, he is a scientific collaborator in the Academy of Athens.
He was one of the main authors of the Study about the Impacts of Climate Change on Greek Agriculture of the National Climate Change Study Committee. Prior to that he worked for the Greek Ministry of Agriculture in the General Secretariat of European Funds and Infrastructure.
From 2011 to 2014 he worked in the European Parliament in Brussels and from 2014 to 2019 at the European Parliament’s branch in Athens as an advisor for the Agricultural and Rural Development Committee.
He is a senior expert in the field of climate services for the private and public sector, developing strategy climate change adaptation plans in Regional, National and International Projects.
He teaches the course “Agriculture modeling under climate change” in the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania and he is a part-time instructor in the American College of Greece in the Environmental Studies Program.
He has written 17 research papers and studies about climate change and agricultural production, with the most emblematic being the study of the Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture by the Bank of Greece (2011) and the publication of a treatise by the Academy of Athens on "Assessments of the effects of climate change on land resources and arable crops of Thessaly" (2022).
Wednesday 10
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19.50 - 20.40
Beyond the Field - Cultivating the Right Skills for the Modern Farmer
Amphictyon Hall | Anemolia Hotel, Arachova
Programming Partner: New Agriculture New Generation & Rutgers University