Brigadier General Christos Athanasiadis

Brigadier General ATHANASIADIS Christos is Commander of the Greek Army Signal Training Centre, Athens since July 2017.He was assigned to the ACOS J6 position at SHAPE  from 30 Apr 15 when he lived up to the emerging and persisting challenges in SHAPE CIS area. On 29 July 2016 he took on the challenging responsibilities of the newly created ACOS JCyber within the CCD Directorate at SHAPE, charged with the build-up of the SHAPE Cyber capabilities. He proved to be pivotal to the success and effectiveness of the JCyber Division upon its provisional activation, in the form of an Interim Working Structure, in July 2016. JCyber had to be developed into a reliable and driving force within the NATO Cyber environment developing inter alia a Cyber Domain Roadmap as a landmark document to operationalize the Cyberspace as a Domain. He was assigned as ACOS J6 in NRDC-GR HQ from 2012 to 2015 contributing to the  HQ efforts to become a NATO High Readiness Force HQ. He has also gained strong experience from successful management of NATO  CIS projects during his employment at NATO C&I Agency (NCIA) as Principal Project Manager from 2009 to 2012 and as C3I advisor at NATO HQ Skopje His military career includes also positions as ISTAR Regiment Deputy Commander, EW Battalion Commander, National Intelligence Service SIGINT Unit Commander and Signal Battalion Commander. He was invited in various conferences to present cyber domain view as a new operational domain in NATO such as NIAS 2015 (BE), CyCon 16 (EST), NIAS 17 (BE), CyCon 17(EST), NNEC 17(ITA), CDANS 17(UK), Cyber course ( GE), PCSS-17 Course Air Marshal Centre (GE), ACO 2018 International Legal Conference(GRC). He graduated from National Technical University of Athens as qualified Electrical and Computer Engineer and he holds a Master in Electrical and Communications  engineering. He has enforced his skills holding also Project Management PRINCE2, ITIL, Network Management, Information Analyst and System Security Certified Practitioner certificates.