Georgios Karakatsanis is an economist; graduate of the department of International and European Economics of Athens University of Economics and Business. He continued his post-graduate studies in National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where in his M.Sc. Thesis he introduced significant innovations in the field of Ecological Finance Engineering.

In the period 2007-2013 he worked in banking on issues of ecological investments, risk management and business continuity. Since May 2013, he is a Ph.D. Candidate in NTUA in the subject of Natural Capital Econometrics, with extensive research and teaching experience in natural resource economics.

Between 2014 and 2016 he worked in Technische Universität München as a Guest Lecturer and Researcher on the subject of Natural Resource Economics for Engineers. In May 2018, he founded the startup EVOTROPIA – Ecological Finance Architectures that designs a digital market for industrial symbiosis, while also developing tailored financial and banking instruments for the circular economy.