Prof. Fotios Chatzitheodoridis is a full professor of Regional Economics—Rural Development and Policy, with the Department of Management Science and Technology, University of Western Macedonia (Greece). He holds a Ph.D. (1998) in Rural Sustainable Development from Aegean University and a B.Sc. in Economics (majored in Development and Programming) (1991) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His main research interests cover sustainable and integrated development, regional planning, environmental economics, and policy analysis.