With 20+ years of multifaceted expertise in corporate innovation, research, consultancy, academia, and public speaking, Dr Fotis Filippopoulos has left his mark in 17 countries on five continents. In February 2017, he received the Highly Commended Award for “Best Provision of Industry Information and Intelligence” at the European Association Awards in Brussels. This recognition was for his research on the Augmented Cooperative Economy, which was commissioned and co-branded by the leading cooperative organizations from Brazil, Canada, and Germany. The project involved 110 cooperatives across 18 sectors and 47 countries. The research was translated into six languages and is listed in HEC Montréal’s CoopGateway, the world’s largest digital library dedicated to cooperatives and mutuals.

As a Visiting Professor of Industrial Skills at the PhD school of Politecnico di Milano and of innovation management at the International Hellenic University in Greece, Fotis’s academic roles, in conjunction with his diverse international project portfolio, reflect his well-established expertise in innovation management, business transformation, advanced research methods, consumer behaviour research, and product development. Furthermore, he brings a valuable blend of strategic and innovative insights and toolkits from his formal training on innovation at MIT alongside PhD-level business research skills from UoG.

As a pioneer in neuromarketing research, he co-founded Delphi, one of the world’s first private consumer behaviour research centres, in 2006. From then until 2012, he led innovative fMRI-based commercial research in collaboration with Euromedica Enkephalos Chalandriou. Over a decade and a half ago, Delphi was listed as one of the world’s leading neuromarketing agencies in international literature.

He is an alumnus of the European Commission’s 2006 official internship program and currently offers his services as an innovation expert (EASME). From 2019 to 2021, he served as the European Commission’s high-level industrial policy advisor for the European Cultural and Creative Industries (DG GROW). As an MIT J-WEL network innovation member, Fotis is deeply involved in global innovation. His participation in several global MIT innovation-related programs, such as MIT Solve, the MIT Engineering Health Equity Hackathon, StartSmart CEE, StartSmartSEE, and the Solveathon workshop, is a testament to his commitment to driving global innovation.

On the global stage, as an expert and thought leader, he has given talks and presentations at the leading global forums and industry summits of their kind, such as the International Summit of Cooperatives 2016 in Quebec City, the World Credit Union Conference 2017 in Vienna, the Asian Leadership Conference 2021 in Seoul, as well as at iconic venues including the European Parliament in Brussels, the MIT Museum in Boston, and the JK Memorial in Brasilia.