Michail Bletsas

Michail Bletsas
Governor, National Cybersecurity Authority of Greece
Director of Computing, MIT Media Lab
Michail Bletsas is a Research Scientist and the Director of Computing at MIT’s Media
Lab where he has been working since 1996. He is responsible for all the infrastructure that
the lab uses to produce, store, transport and consume its bits. He was a member of the
core technical and design team for the “One Laptop Per Child” initiative which created
OLPC’s pioneering, award-winning “XO” laptop. His current research interests include
network security, disinformation operations, wireless networks and building efficient high
performance machine learning computing infrastructures.
Over the years, he has advised governments around technology policy issues and
provided expert opinion in technical matters to top-level officials. He has cofounded two
companies, has been a director and consulted for many others in a variety of capacities.
He has been appointed as the first Governor of the National Cybersecurity Authority of
Greece in April 2024.
He has implemented broadband access networks using cutting-edge technologies
including one of the earliest ADSL testbeds and various wireless technologies. Mr. Bletsas
has been a frequent keynote speaker in international conferences and has been engaged
in many civic activities. He holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from
the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MSc degree in Computer Engineering from
Boston University.