Δημήτρης Παπακανέλλου

Dimitris Papakanellou is a Partner at EY-Parthenon in Greece, where he leads the Strategy practice, with a focus on Consumer & Retail, Energy and Industrial sectors. He joined EY in March 2024, having previously set up and led the Strategy & Operations practices of major consulting firms in Greece. He began his career with Arthur Andersen in London.

With more than 25 years of international consulting experience, Dimitris has led strategy, restructuring and transformation programmes, value-chain optimisation and advanced commercial analytics projects, as well as post-merger integrations and major investment evaluations. In retail, his work covers sales-channel and store-network strategy, store design and customer experience across physical and digital channels, operating-model redesign, and the creation of new products and services for leading Greek consumer-facing companies.

He has co-authored the EY-Parthenon Grocery Retail Outlook 2026, which brings together the views of the sector's leading voices on how Greek retail will change by 2030.

Dimitris holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, an MSc in Control Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Operations Management from UMIST, as well as an ACCA certified diploma.