Dr. Eng. Evangelos Markopoulos is an expert, entrepreneur, and scholar on Innovation Management (Disruptive), Entrepreneurship (Social and Sustainable), Knowledge Management and startup-development and funding. He holds a BA on Computer Science, an MSc on Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence, and an PhD on ICT Project/Investments Management.

As a Computer Scientist he worked mainly in the USA and at ΙΒΜ, at Siemens and at Bell Laboratories of AT&T. In academia Dr. Markopoulos taught for many years in several businesses school in the UK (QMUL, UCL, U. of Essex, RHUL, SOAS, HULT) and conducted research for the same schools and others (University of Turku, TUAS-Finland Zayed University UAE). He published more than 120 papers in double blind peer reviewed academic journals and conferences, one book on Innovative Organizational Cultures, and edited 3 international conference proceedings.

As an innovative entrepreneur and businessman, he established and managed the EMPROSS Group of companies consisted of: EMPROSS Strategic IT Consultants, Athens, Greece (Project Management), Sparthink Technologies, San Francisco (Innovation & Apps Development, SmartGATE, Cairo Egypt (Enterprise Engineering), and Sophia147+, London, UK (Knowledge and Innovation Management).  He invested and developed several technologies and innovations in Process & Project Management & Engineering.

During his professional career he taught more than 200 international corporate and executive education programs, seminars, and workshops to more than 10.000 professionals at all levels (executives, managers, directors, business owners, etc.) organized by corporations, universities, industrial associations, and federations.

Dr. Markopoulos works well on bridging industry and academia with practical research and industrial, projects and initiatives. His teaching is based on the Applied Philosophy concept he invented by integrating in class the thinking and reasoning of major philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Voltaire, Descartes, Kant, Confucius, Smith, Bacon, etc) through which he achieves high results in student performance, satisfaction, engagement, and commitment. He brings in class the integration of his academic and industry experience and works closely with the students by offering academic and industry opportunities (internships, competitions, challenges). 

His successful coaching and mentoring impact the knowledge, careers, and future of his students.  The last five years he achieved with his students, many international awards and distinctions on global social and sustainable entrepreneurship projects and competitions (UK, Norway, Santo Domingo, Malaysia, Vietnam, Egypt, Japan, Lebanon, China, Canada, Spain, Colombia, France, to mention a few), winning two times the UNs Global Social Entrepreneurship Award (Hult Prize), and receiving a letter of recognition from the former US President William Jefferson Clinton.