Yannis Freris has been studying Political Science, International Law & international Relations at Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne University, from where he holds a Bachelor and a DEA-MBA Degrees. He has been working for more than two decades at GEFYRA S.A. (subsidiary of the French multinational Group VINCI, as Director of Corporate Communication & Sustainable Development of the Rio-Antirrio Bridge, Greece’s most monumental infrastructure, inaugurated during the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games. He has been for four consecutive times elected to the Board of the EACD and was the initiator of the organization’s first CSR Working Group. In his homeland, he has also been twice-elected Vice-President of the Corporate Affairs Section of the Hellenic Management Association.