Nikos Avlonas is the founder and President of the Centre for Sustainability & Excellence (CSE) a global Sustainability Strategic advisory and Training organization with activities in North America, Europe, MENA and Asia. He has been distinguished as one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America, in 2010. He is an Adjunct Professor in DePaul University and a visiting professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business.He was founder and Co-Chair of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce Sustainability Strategy Committee. He is advisory council member of SERF (Society of Environmentally Responsible buildings) Green Building guidelines in US and one of the founders and Vice President of the Corporate Responsibility Institute since 2007, a non profit organization for CSR performance evaluation and benchmarking (based on the Business in the Community Index-BITC). Additionally, he is Board member in the Green Meetings Industry Council in Chicago. He has been Scientific Advisor to the European Foundation for Quality Management, based in Brussels, in the field of Business Excellence and Corporate Social Responsibility and he has project leader for the development of a CSR Framework and relevant tools supported by the UN Global Compact and applied to thousands of companies globally. He is co-author of ‘’Practical Sustainability Strategies‘’ published by Wiley in 2014 which become one of the best selling books in its field and ‘’Management Models for the future’’ in 2009.