Dimitrios ATHANASIOU

Dimitrios Athanasiou holds a BA in Business Administration and an MBA in Financial Management.

He speaks three European languages and has more than 25 years of experience with international business projects, working in various countries in consulting, developing, and reorganizing companies. When his son was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a fatal and incurable rare disease, he became a strong international patient advocate in Duchenne and Rare Diseases. He is the vice president of the Rare Diseases Greece Association.

Having a passionate personality and technocratic background, he educated himself with basic rare disease and advocacy knowledge via the EURORDIS Summer School and then with the 14-month Patient Expert Course of the European Patient Academy of Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI) acquiring basic biotech and regulatory knowledge, where he served as a Member of EUPATI’s Course Committee for the next year, representing the patient voice. Being an EUPATI fellow, he established the Greek EUPATI National Liaison Team.