Dr. Athanasios Ziliaskopoulos is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund. He received his diploma in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, his MS in Industrial Engineering and his Ph.D. in Transportation Systems Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Until 2004, he was the Louis Berger Professor of Transport Systems at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL USA, where he was awarded the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the US National Science Foundation. Dr. Ziliaskopoulos is a Professor of Production and Logistics at the University of Thessaly since 2004;from 2010 to 2015 he was the Chairman and CEO of TRAINOSE, S.A and the Chairman of the Greek National Logistics Committee. While at TRAINOSE, S.A., he managed to restructure the company and from an annual loss of 240 million euro in 2009, the company became profitable in 2012. In addition, in 2013 he was instrumental in initiating the railway container services from the Port of Piraeus to Central Europe. He is an expert with the Asian Development Bank and participated in various infrastructure and PPP initiatives in Asia. He is member of the Transportation Research Board of US National Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as the Chair of the National Logistics Council aiming to promote Greece as a gateway to the European Hinterland. In 2021, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of HRADF.