Doukas is the Mayor of Athens, having assumed office on 1 January 2024, succeeding Kostas Bakoyannis.

Haris Doukas field of expertise is related with the development of decision support systems for energy and climate policy, placing the human factor at the core of the modelling processes and policymaking towards sustainable development.

He has more than 150 scientific publications in international scientific journals with reviewers is the abovementioned fields, he is the co-author of the Greek book Multiple Criteria Decision Models for Energy and Environmental Systems,[2] the co-editor of the open-access book Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy: Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society[3] and the co-author of the English book Multicriteria Portfolio Construction with Python.

Along with Doukas came several others wishing to succeed Androulakis including former Minister for Culture and Tourism Pavlos Geroulanos.

[10][11][12][13] See complete bibliography: Haris Doukas Google Scholar page[14] The top 5 of his most cited articles up to 29 July 2021, are listed below: