Dimitrios Voloudakis

Capacity Building Director

Greece’s New Agriculture New Generation , Greece

Dimitris graduated from Agricultural University of Athens. He holds a PhD degree in
Agronomy with a specialization in Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture. His doctoral
research was funded by the EU and the Greek Ministry of Education. 
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. 
From 2014 to 2015 he worked as a National Expert in the Greek Educational 
Organization for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance
(E.O.P.P.E.P) in Athens. 
From 2018 to 2020, he worked as a senior expert in the field of climate services for 
the private (Envirometrics LTD) and public (Academy of Athens) sector, developing
strategy climate change adaptation plans in Regional, National and International
Projects.
From January 2019, 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.
Since October 2020, as a scientific associate of the Academy of Athens he is
responsible for developing the national framework for climate change adaptation
indicators and a monitoring and assessment process for the sectors of Agriculture,
Forestry, Aquaculture and Fisheries in the context of the LIFE IP AdaptINGr Project.
He teaches the course “Agriculture modeling under climate change” in the framework
of the Master Program “Geoinformation in Environmental Management” in the
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania.
From January 2023, he is a part-time instructor in the American College of Greece in
the Environmental Studies Program.
Finally, he is member of the Working Group for Environment and Climate Change of
the Greek Ministry of Rural Development and Food.