The team

Michalis Fefes

Michalis “fell in love” with cooperative institution since 1990, when he was working on his doctoral dissertation. He has contributed to the visibility of this field through teaching, research, writing, professional involvement and participation in scientific teams. He is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens, holds a PhD from the University of London and has been a lawyer in Athens since 1990.

For the last 17 years, Michalis has been deeply involved in the agricultural cooperative sector. He has been legal attorney of the Agricultural Bank till its liquidation, in which in 2012 he assumed the duties of Deputy Director of its Legal Department. From 2012 till 2016, he was legal attorney of Piraeus Bank (since 2014 Manager in the bond loans sector of the Legal Department). He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Greek Sugar Industry SA.

From 1999 to 2002 he taught as an Associate at the Technological Educational School of Athens. Since October 2001 he has been teaching at Universities in our country, while from June 2009 until today he is a faculty member at the University of Peloponnese (currently an Associate Professor). He also teaches in Postgraduate Programs and is a Teaching Fellow at the Hellenic Open University. He is also teaching at the National School of Public Administration and Local Government.

He has, among others, conducted a research program for the European Co-operative at the European University Institute in Florence as a Research Fellow. He has participated as an Expert in the Working Group on Co-operative Legislation in Europe, set up in 2006 by the European Commission and in the Group of Experts for the reorganization of agricultural co-operatives in Greece set up in 2010 by the Minister of Rural Development and Food.

He has written five monographs, four of which are on the subject of co-operatives and 28 articles in scientific journals, Greek and foreign, most of which refer to the social economy sector and co-operatives. Finally, he has participated in many workshops and conferences in Greece and abroad.

 

Brief CV

Michalis’s purpose is to support the organization and management of cooperatives and other types of collective actions, in order to achieve environmental, economic and social sustainability. To achieve this, he uses his legal and organizational knowledge, and his practical experience in the banking, university and law industries as well.

Contact Details

fefes@coopability.org

Our Team

The Co-opAbility Institute is creared by a team of scientists who firmly believe in cooperation and cooperatives as a means of sustainable entrepreneurial development. Our Work is to co-create, together with interested partners, system-wise solutions to their problems based on awareness-based collective action.

Constantine Iliopoulos

Constantine Iliopoulos

Costas’ mission is to help people, communities, and cooperatives work together effectively in order to achieve their goals, seize emerging opportunities, and co-design solutions to the most pressing social dilemmas and challenges facing them.

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Michalis Fefes

Michalis Fefes

Michalis’s purpose is to support the organization and management of cooperatives and other types of collective actions, in order to achieve environmental, economic and social sustainability. To achieve this, he uses his legal and organizational knowledge, and his practical experience in the banking, university and law industries as well.

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Giorgos Varthalamis

Giorgos Varthalamis

George’s purpose is to promote and fully support cooperation between and among people. His purpose is fulfilled by adopting a pro-active stance, working with and for cooperatives and by facilitating cooperative businesses in becoming sustainable.

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Thanasis Bizos

Thanasis Bizos

Thanasis’s purpose is to encourage and support people and communities for a more harmonic connection and high-level collective action in order to achieve economic and social well-being.

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Vasia Stamouli

Vasia Stamouli

Vasia's goal is to help develop and spread a spirit of cooperation in groups and cooperatives. This is achieved through the constant search for creative solutions, the promotion of organizational and social innovations and the facilitation of the acquisition of skills that help to establish and manage sustainable teams.

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