George Mavrotas graduated from the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens in 1990. From 1994 he became member of the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics. He received his PhD in 2000 in Operational Research, on the topic of Multi-Objective Mathematical Programming. He is currently Associate Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, in the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, School of Chemical Engineering. His research interests include mainly Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Multi-Objective Optimization through Mathematical programming. He has developed novel methods and models for this class of problems. The application areas of these methods include energy, environment, finance, project selection, portfolio selection etc. He has 69 publications in scientific journals with more than 3462 citations in his work with an h-index of 29 (Scopus data, May 2021).
He was famous water polo player with participation in 5 Olympic Games, Captain of the National team from 1995 to 2000 and participation in the world selection in 1999. From 2014 to 2019 he was Member of Parliament in Greece and also member in the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe. Currently, he serves as Secretary General of Sport in Greece, with suspension from most of his academic duties.
CHILON: Α multiple criteria evaluation system for sport federations
The evaluation of sport federations is always a critical task when sport policies are designed. A system cannot be improved, if it is not first evaluated. The Greek sport system is based on the sport federations where each one of them cultivates one or more sports. In the present work, we developed a multiple criteria evaluation system for the sport federations named “Chilon” after the Spartan Philosopher. The evaluation system is subsequently linked to state funding. The four major criteria of evaluation are: (1) size (2) distinctions (3) Activity and (4) Governance. In the designed hierarchical structure, the 4 criteria are composed of 18 sub-criteria and the values in the sub-criteria are evaluated through 64 indices that are provided by the sport federations. The value function is a simple additive function where the weighting coefficients are actually the policy parameters and the score of each sport federation in each criterion is calculated using proper reference values. The results provide useful conclusions about the overall performance of the sport federations and reveal the strong and weak points of each one of them.