George Tsatsoulas
Risk and Crisis Security Manager. Founder of Security Defence.
He writes and designs for resilience from the position of someone who has stood inside crises, as a person called on to decide while time was pressing and the signals were still unclear. He began in the field, with operational training and work under pressure. He founded Security Defence in 2010 and through it directed security projects for EYDAP, STASY, the Municipality of Athens and Bulkers SA in Piraeus. Today he teaches, researches and writes on prevention.
One morning, in an operations centre, he saw a signal clearly and did not believe it. What followed he recounts himself in the prologue to The Daedalic Methodology.
Studies and research
- Doctoral candidate and Fellow Researcher, Saint Thomas Polytechnic, Singapore, where he teaches Risk and Crisis Security Management
- MBA in Crisis Management and MSc in Human Resource Management, at the same institution
- Training and certification by the UN, NATO and the OSCE, through the Multinational Peace Support Operations Training Centre of the Hellenic Army General Staff
- Programmes at the University of Piraeus (security studies, security of building facilities), the University of Macedonia (crisis management, leadership), the University of Ioannina (protection of officials) and the Institute for Manmade and Natural Disaster Management
- Certified adult trainer in security subjects, EOPPEP, the National Organisation for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance
- Registered in the Trainers' Register of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, number 737, since 2017
- Dozens of specialised certifications in crisis management, facility security, countermeasures against industrial and economic espionage, physical security, incident management at airports, fire safety, first aid and emergency response
Positions and institutional roles
- Risk Analyst at ESA security solutions
- President and Head of Crisis Management and Risk Analysis at the Meteorological Research and Disaster Management Institute, until 12/2022
- Secretary General, Natural Hazards Research Center, Eastern Mediterranean Climate Variability
- Scientific advisor to the Union of Greek Bodyguards
Teaching and training
- Design and delivery of the training programme of Ovit Security
- Head trainer and crisis management consultant at the Institute for Manmade and Natural Disaster Management
- Instructor of private security personnel at the KORELKO Vocational Training Institute
- Staff training at the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Athens Stock Exchange Group, the Municipal Police of Nea Filadelfeia-Chalkidona and private security companies
Operational training
- VIP Security Manager, VIP Bodyguard Team Leader, VIP Bodyguard
- Hostage situations, workplace invasion, armed attack, home invasion
- Security of critical infrastructure in the field, vehicle security, security at sports venues and events
- Individual combat tactics and combat shooting
- Survival in an urban environment
- Safe and fast driving
- Psychology of suspects, characteristics and body language
Sport
Athlete of the Hellenic boxing, wrestling, kick boxing and shooting federations, with national honours from 2006 to the present, among them first places in the Greek national boxing, wrestling and kick boxing championships. Coach in boxing, wrestling and muay thai, and instructor in shooting and self-defence.
The books
In Resilience or Chaos he mapped prevention as a practical field, bringing together scientific knowledge and experience gained on the ground. He is the creator of the Daedalic Methodology, which gave its name to the second book, The Daedalic Methodology. There he goes to the thinking behind prevention: why crises rarely take us by surprise, and how time is read while it is still early.
A father of two, he lives in Greece.