George Sapounidis

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Yiorgos Sapounidis better known as George Sapounidis is a Greek Canadian musician, troubadour, statistician and a Sinophile living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was the 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,^[1] BBC's "Storyville" series^[2] and TV2, tells the story of Sapounidis as a popular musician 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.

He is a graduate from University of Toronto who earned a PhD in Mathematical Statistics. He recently retired from Statistics Canada to concentrate on his music.