Alexandros Melidis is a political scientist specialising in open and digital governance. Since 2021 he has been General Director of the Open Technologies Alliance – GFOSS where he coordinates projects and partnerships on open source software, open data and open source AI. He is a board member of Consul Democracy Foundation and Transparency International Greece and has served as national researcher for the Open Government Partnership’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM). From 2009 to 2012 he was part of the e-government team at the Office of the Greek Prime Minister, where he contributed to the design of Diavgeia and opengov.gr. He holds a degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Athens and an MA in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester.