Bill M. Halkias PE, F.ASCE, F.ITE, is Advisor to the Management of the Attiki Odos (Attica Tollway) Operation and Maintenance Company (Attikes Diadromes S.A.), having served the company as its Managing Director and CEO since its inception in 1999 and until 2022.
His career spans over 40 years of professional activities in the field of transportation engineering, the first 15 of which in the US and the remaining in Europe. He has served as the first President of the Hellenic Association of Toll Road Network, with the distinctive title “HELLASTRON”. He has also served as President of the Association of European Toll Motorways «Association Européenne des Concessionnaires d’Autoroutes et d’ouvrages à Péage» (ASECAP) based in Brussels, Belgium, as well as President of the “International Road Federation” (IRF) based in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 2021, Bill Halkias is serving as Vice President, in line for becoming President in 2024 of the «International Bridge Tunnel and Turnpike Association» (ΙΒΤΤΑ), based in Washington DC, USA. He has also served as a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Freeway Operations Committee of the American Academy of Sciences and President of the Hellenic Institute of Transportation and Engineers (H.ITE). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Greece and in eight US states.
Bill Halkias is a graduate of the Rural and Surveying Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens (1981) and holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in US (1984).
