
Petros Zenelis was born in Alexandroupolis, Greece in 1978. In September 1997, he was admitted to the Department of Economics at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He graduated in February 2002 with major in Market & Business Economics – Finance and minor in Development Theory & Policy and International Economics, having received a degree classification of Very Good. Meanwhile, from August 1999 until January 2000, he attended the University of Linköping, Sweden, to study at the Department of Business Administration as an Erasmus Student Exchange Programme scholar.
In October 2001 he started working at Omikron Ltd as a trainee under the two-month student placement programme of the University of Athens. He worked for the same company once again from April until July 2002. Subsequently, he pursued postgraduate studies on International Banking and Financial Services at the University of Reading, United Kingdom; his Thesis was about price discrimination in the airline market.
In November 2003 he joined the Army and served for seventeen months as Military Officer in Reserve in the Economic Military Corp. By the time he finished his military service he was admitted to the rank of Second Lieutenant.
Mr Zenelis is currently reading for his PhD on low-cost air carriers at the University of the Aegean. Petros speaks five languages (Greek, English, Spanish, French and Swedish). He had numerous distinctions as a member of the "Papagos" Chess Club. He was a member of "Holargos" Basketball Club for many years and he still exercises the sport on an amateur basis. He loves travelling and in May 2005 he went to Thailand, as a volunteer in a Charity Organization, for the post-tsunami reconstruction of Phi Phi Islands. He is an amateur photographer and loves music.
You may contact Petros by email at petzen@trioptron.org.