Haris Doukas. Haris Doukas (born 12 May 1980) is a Greek mechanical engineer and Professor of energy policy and management at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. Doukas is the Mayor of Athens, having assumed office on 1 January 2024, succeeding Kostas Bakoyannis.

Scientific career
Haris Doukas field of expertise is related with the development of decision support systems for energy and climate policy, placing the human factor at the core of the modelling processes and policymaking towards sustainable development. 

His integrative frameworks are based on co-creation with citizens, along with co-ownership where feasible. Doukas uses linguistic variables for capturing the essence of human behaviour in energy and climate policymaking, enabling the design of policies that listen to "what people want" and "what people can do", which is fundamental for their success. 

He has more than 150 scientific publications in international scientific journals with reviewers is the abovementioned fields, he is the co-author of the Greek book Multiple Criteria Decision Models for Energy and Environmental Systems, the co-editor of the open-access book Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy: Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society and the co-author of the English book Multicriteria Portfolio Construction with Python. Moreover, Doukas is an Associate Editor of the Operational Research International Journal and the General Secretary of the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS). 

Haris Doukas participates as an expert at the World Renewable Energy Congress / Network (WREC / WREN) where he has received a special award for his contribution, the World Energy Council (WEC) and the EU GCC Clean Energy Technology Network.

Political career
On 3 August 2023, Doukas launched his campaign to be elected mayor of Athens in the 2023 Athens Municipal elections under the Athens Now party and with the support of PASOK – Movement for Change and Volt Greece. Doukas campaigned to develop Athens into a green city. His campaign was successful, defeating the incumbent mayor Kostas Bakoyannis in the runoff.

On 30 June 2024 Doukas officially announced his candidacy for leader of PASOK hoping to take the place of Nikos Androulakis; hoping to unite the centre-left powers (Syriza, PASOK) in prospects of the Next greek elections (probably 2027), mostly due to the stagnation of PASOK in the 2024 European Parliament elections. Along with Doukas came several others wishing to succeed Androulakis including former Minister for Culture and Tourism Pavlos Geroulanos.

Bibliography 
See complete bibliography: Haris Doukas Google Scholar page

The top 5 of his most cited articles up to 29 July 2021, are listed below:

 Haris Doukas, Konstantinos D Patlitzianas, Konstantinos Iatropoulos, John Psarras. "Intelligent building energy management system using rule sets". Building and environment Journal, Volume 42, Issue 10, 1 October 2007, Pages 3562-3569
 Haris Ch Doukas, Botsikas M Andreas, John E Psarras. "Multi-criteria decision aid for the formulation of sustainable technological energy priorities using linguistic variables". European journal of operational research, Volume 182, Issue 2, 16 October 2007, Pages 844-855
 Haris Doukas, Christos Nychtis, John Psarras. "Assessing energy-saving measures in buildings through an intelligent decision support model". Building and environment Journal, Volume 44, Issue 2, 1 February 2009, Pages 290-298
 Vangelis Marinakis, Haris Doukas, Charikleia Karakosta, John Psarras. "An integrated system for buildings’ energy-efficient automation: Application in the tertiary sector". Applied Energy Journal, Volume 101, 1 January 2013, Pages 6-14
 Konstantinos D Patlitzianas, Haris Doukas, Argyris G Kagiannas, John Psarras. "Sustainable energy policy indicators: Review and recommendations". Renewable Energy Journal, Volume 33, Issue 5, 1 May 2008, Pages 966-973

References

External links 
ECE School of NTUA - Academic Staff
EPU-NTUA - Faculty members
World Renewable Energy Congress Award 2018 
Executive Board of the HELORS (in Greek)
World Energy Council (WEC) Greece - Office Manager

1980 births
Living people
Academic staff of the National Technical University of Athens
Engineers from Athens
21st-century Greek politicians
Mayors of Athens