George O. TSOBANOGLOU received his PhD in Sociology and Public Policy from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is Vice-President elect at World Congress of Sociology, 2023, Melbourne, International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Sociotechnics and Sociological Practice (ISA-RC26). Professor Cultural Policy Management, Hellenic Open University and Visiting Professor University of Athens, Athens, Greece on Sociology and Pedagogics.  He taught for 25 years at the University of the Aegean, Greece on Sociology of Work Organization and Local Economic Employment Development and Social Innovation.

He taught and researched at various Institutes and Universities in Canada and Europe working on issues of working-life, social development, and social cohesion. He worked on comparative development issues between Greece and Norway at the Institute of Social Research, Oslo. He founded and directed for 20 yrs the Sociology of Work and Professions Laboratory at the University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece. Among his books are The Debt Crisis in the Eurozone: Social Impacts, 2014, Divisions of Greece: The Organizational Impact of Labor Policies during 1949-1981, (trans. in German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese), Citizen’s Participation and Empowerment: Emerging Policies, Practices and Trends, 2021, Delhi, Mutuality : Sustaining Communities, 2019 Papazisis (in Greek), The Rise of the Anthropocentric Community,  2021, Stamoulis (in Greek) and Sustaining Communities : Prospects and Changes, 2022, NOVA Scientific Publishers, New York.