Dr. Ioannis Tomkos, is the Associate Dean of Athens Information Technology Center since June 2004. He joined AIT as a tenured Associate Professor in 2002 when he also became an Adjunct Faculty at the Information Networking Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University, PA, USA. Since September 2005 Dr. Tomkos has the rank of tenured Full Professor. At AIT he also serves as the Head of the “High Speed Networks and Optical Communication (NOC)” Research Group which performs advanced technical and techno-economic studies related with its areas of interest. His group participates in a number of EU and National funded research projects (EU IST-3 SSA BReATH, EU IST-4 STREP TRIUMPH, EU IST-4 NoE e-Photon/ONE2, EU IST-5 IP LUCIFER, COST 291 TDON, GSRT/BC AON, COST 288, COST 293) in several of which Dr. Tomkos has leading role. He is the elected Chairman of the EU COST 291 project entitled “Towards Digital Optical Networks”, a Steering Board member in the EU IST SSA project BReATH, Leader of a Joint Project in the framework of e-Photon/ONE2 EU NoE project and the Technical Manager of the EU IST STREP project TRIUMPH. The NOC group participates also in collaborative research and consulting projects with high-tech industries. The level of funding raised by AIT due to the research activities of the group exceeds 800K Euros. His current research interests cover technical aspects of optical communication systems and networks and technoeconomic and regulation/policy aspects of broadband access networks and services. On these topics, Dr. Tomkos has acted as consultant for high-tech ICT companies in Greece and abroad.