Georgios Boustras (; born May 1973) is a professor of risk assessment at

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and editor-in-chief of ''

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'', a

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published by

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. He is the director of the Centre of Excellence in Risk & Decision Sciences (CERIDES) at European University Cyprus. He is a Member of the

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Mission Board in Climate Adaptation. Boustras's research interests include the development, use and evaluation of statistical models for risk assessment, occupational and societal safety.

Education

George Boustras received a

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and a

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(MSc) degree in energy resources management from

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in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He received the

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(PhD) degree in Probabilistic Fire Risk Assessment from Kingston University London in 2003. He was an Honorary Research fellow at

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from 2003 to 2005, and a KTP Research Fellow at the Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) at the

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in 2009.

Career

Boustras worked as an external agent for the

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to modernize licensing services of the

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. He was appointed by the President of the Republic of Cyprus,

Nicos Anastasiades Nicos Anastasiades ( ; born 27 September 1946) is a Cypriot politician and businessperson, who served as the seventh president of Cyprus from 2013 to 2023. Previously, he was the leader of Democratic Rally between 1997 and 2013 and served as Me ...

as vice president of Cyprus's Energy Strategy Council. He has advocated for the need for radical changes in civil protection in response to

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. In March 2023, he was appointed by Cypriot President

Nikos Christodoulides Nikos Christodoulides (; born 6 December 1973) is a Cypriot politician, diplomat, and academic who has served as the 8th President of Cyprus since 2023. He previously served as Government Spokesman from 2014 to 2018 and List of Ministers of Fore ...

as a special advisor in civil protection and crisis management.

References

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