MSc planner/architect, ECOCITY Board
Mrs Karavasili is an Architect (d.p.l.g.) with postgraduate studies in Urban and Regional Planning, Spatial Planning and Economic Programming at Paris IV–Sorbonne University, and an MSc in Social Psychology from EHESS, Paris. She worked for approximately 28 years in the Greek Ministry responsible for Environment and Spatial Planning (formerly ΥΠΕΧΩΔΕ), in senior positions dealing with environmental policy, urban planning and housing policy. She has served as Environment Attaché at Greece’s Permanent Representation to the EU from 2001, and chaired the Environment Working Party of the Council of the EU during the Greek Presidency in 2003.
She has became the first General Environmental Inspector, heading the newly established Special Environmental Inspectors Service, while from 2009 to 2012, she has served as Special Secretary for the Environment and Energy Inspectorate at the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (YPEKA). She has a longstanding professional and scientific work on bioclimatic architecture, ecological/sustainable construction, energy efficiency, renewable energy and sustainable urban development. She has served as scientific adviser to the UIA-ARES International Work Programme on Architecture and Renewable Energy. Since 2012, she has been associated with and has chaired the Citizens’ Observatory for Sustainable Development (CISD). She is a member of the ECOCITY Board and has previously served as its president. ECOCITY currently identifies her as an MSc planner/architect and former Special Secretary for the Environment and Energy Inspectorate. She has authored scientific books and numerous articles and interventions on environmental and energy policy, sustainable development, urban planning and sustainable construction.
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