Dr Yannis N. Tzortzis RPS was born in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece. He studied photography, culture management and law in Greece, England,
and Belgium. He is a Member of the “Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
(RPS)” and the “Photographic Circle, Greece”, specialised in environmental photography. He is the Co-founder and President
of the Non-Profit Organisation “Green Project”, whose environmental photo
journeys around the world are being held under the auspices of the Hellenic
National Commission for UNESCO. He has been elected a Member of the Board of Directors of the “Lilian
Boudouri Foundation”. He
is a Member of the “Council of Energy and Tax Reform” of the “Elliniki Etairia
of Environment and Culture”. He has been photographing and producing
documentary films in the context of the Green Project journeys. He has won many
prestigious international photography and film awards, published various photo monographs
and exhibited/presented his work in Greece, England, France, Austria, China,
Colombia, Uruguay, Australia, etc. He holds a PhD
in Law of the University of London, an LLM of the London School of Economics and
Political Science, a DEA of the University of Brussels, an MA in Culture Management of Panteion University, and a BA of the Law
School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is the President
of the Legal Experts Committee of the Just Transition Development Plan (JTDP)
and the Legal Counsel of the JTDP Steering Committee, and an Attorney at Law at
the Supreme Court of the “Regulatory Authority for Energy, Greece”, specialised
in Environmental and Energy Law.