George Sapounidis
Male, Person
1951 –
Who is George Sapounidis?
Yiorgos Sapounides better known as George Sapounides is a Greek Canadian musician / troubadour, statistician and a Sinophile living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was also subject of 2005 Canadian documentary film entitled Chairman George. The documentary, directed by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin and produced by EyeSteelFilm in association with CTV, BBC's "Storyville" series and TV2, tells the story of Sapounides as a musician popular in China campaigning for approval to perform at the closing ceremonies of 2004 Athens Olympics when the flag was to be given to Beijing for organizing the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In addition to Greek and Mandarin Chinese, he sings in more than five other languages.
Yet, by day, this Montreal-born folksinger is a graduate from University of Toronto where he holds a PhD in Mathematical Statistics bearing statistician. He works for Statistics Canada in Ottawa employing statistical software and mathematical formulae to design business surveys.
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