Dr. Alkistis Parpoura & Dr. Erich van Ham
Region of Western Greece, Regional Unit of Aetoloacarnania, Fisheries Department and Department of Environment & Hydro-Economics

Dr. Alkistis Parpoura has been working at the Fisheries Department, Directorate of Agriculture Economics & Veterinary of the Regional Unit Aetoloacarnania, Region of Western Greece since 2001 and became its Head of Department in 2014. She graduated as a biologist from the University of Athens in 1989, from which she subsequently obtained a MSc. degree in Biological Oceanography (1993) and a Ph.D. degree in Fish Nutrition (1998). She has been involved in the Greek Aquaculture Industry for more than 30 years and has also worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Aquaculture & Fisheries of the Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece, from 1990-2010.

Dr. Erich van Ham holds a Ph.D. degree in Fish Biology & Marine Science from the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, since 2003. He has participated in various collaborative aquaculture R&D projects related to fish and shrimp production in Norway, Greece, China and Australia, which were funded by the EU-FAIR and -LSF programs as well as the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, and has worked for many years in the Greek Aquaculture Industry (Astakos Aquaculture Panagiotis Parpouras, Andromeda S.A. and Plagton S.A.). Since 2014 he has been working at the Department of Environment & Hydro-Economics of the Regional Unit Aetoloacarnania, Directorate of Environment & Spatial Planning in the Region of Western Greece.