George Tziallas is a Civil Engineer (University of Patras, Greece) with a Master's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning (M.Sc.) from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA.
He has a twenty-five year professional experience in management consulting, specializing in the fields of local and regional development, tourism development and planning, as well as in the management, monitoring and evaluation of EU Programmes and projects.
He has worked in senior positions in management consulting firms for more than twenty years, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of Management Consulting Firms (SESMA).
He has extensive experience in spatial planning and in strategic/operational planning, as well as in business process re-engineering and in ICT projects, and has been involved as Expert Consultant in the implementation of a large number of studies in the fields of local and regional development, economic development, tourism, education and training, in Greece and abroad.
He has been the project manager of large-scale technical assistance projects at national and EU level. He has gained excellent knowledge of the Greek public administration procedures, as well as of the EU Structural Funds context.