Nicholas Karachalis is Assistant Professor at the University of the Aegean and expert in the field of cultural and tourism strategies and urban development. He has experience as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Planning and Regional Development of the University of Thessaly and as a lecturer at the post-graduate programme in Cultural Management at the Greek Open University. He has also participated in several other university programmes as teaching staff, e.g. as Visiting Staff at the International Hellenic University for the module of Sustainable Tourism Planning, at the Open University of Cyprus for the module of Cultural Economics and Management, as an organisor of summer universities with Dutch Universities through his role as collaborator of the Netherlands Institute of Athens and as a trainer and seminar facilitator for various organisations (e.g. URBACT, ESPON, National Public Administration School in Greece, etc.) He holds a PhD in Economic and Regional Development (Panteion University of Athens), a Master in European Urban Cultures (Joint programme by the Free University of Brussels, the University of Tilburg, the Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Arts and Design of Helsinki) and a BA in Urban and Regional Development (Panteion University of Athens). In 2010 he completed his post-doctoral research in tourism impact measurement of urban festivals. He has a strong interest in analysing the trends and dynamics between culture, tourism and spatial development processes, using an interdisciplinary approach and perspective (drawing on cultural economics, place marketing and branding, urban tourism, etc.) He has collaborated to several research projects and studies related to regional and local development, marketing, cultural economics and tourism planning. Alongside with his academic research, he has worked as an advisor for public bodies (Municipalities, Regional Authorities, City Tourism Offices, etc.) on matters of policy, funding, tendering practices, entrepreneurship, change management etc. He is fluent in Greek, English and Dutch. He has been appointed as evaluator by the European Commission for Horizon 2020 proposals. Refer tohttp://uth.academia.edu/NicholasKarachalis https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicholas_Karachalis2