Yannis Tountas is a Professor of Social & Preventive in the University of Athens. He has studied Biology and Public Health in Harvard University, as well as Medicine in University of Athens. He is the Director of Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), President of the Hellenic Society for Health Promotion and Education, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Hellenic Healthy Cities Network. He is publisher of the journal «New Health» and author of fifteen books and more than 200 publications in scientific journals.