Born in a small village in Greece, his childhood dream was to go beyond the horizons as contained by the mountains of his village, travel and meet new people and different civilizations.

He graduated from a school in merchant navy engineering in 1959. However, he was forced to abandon the trade he studied for, mainly for two reasons. He could not see himself contained into the engine room of a ship, for prolonged periods of time, and above all he has a very sensitive to loud noise hearing and the engine room was not the ideal working place. He went to Brazil in 1960 and to Canada in 1963. The environment he lived in the early stages of his life played a roll in influencing and shaping his character with all it's defects and qualities as is today.

Dimitri Favvas will not say to people what they want to hear, just to please them or to obtain favourable concessions, if he does not believe it himself. He will not accept doing anything, before he is confident he can do it. Yet he is flexible to listen to other people's suggestions or opinions and evaluate them according to his judgement.

At work, he is always searching for better ways to do things. If there is a problem, he will not give up searching for a solution. He believes that there is room for improvement on every field.

Projects

Machine shop, fabrication and installation functions since the age of 15. Prior to joining GE Hydro (former Dominion Engineering Works) in Canada, (1973) was involved in different fabrication, machining and installation areas, including industrial installations at ''USIMINAS'' (Steel mill), PORTLAND PAINS (cement), PROVIDRO and VIFOSA (glass manufacturers) all of the above in Brazil (1960--1963). For the period of 1963-1973 worked in various shops in Canada.

In his capacity as inspector and technical director with GE Hydro since 1973, he oversaw the installation of two grinding (SAG) mills in Labrador city (Iron Ore), three mills in Salt Lake city (Kennecott) the relocation of four mills in Logan Lake (Highland Valley). Participated in the transfer of technology on the project of CORUMBA in Brazil, ERTAN and more recently THREE GORGES in China. Supervised the quality of four Generators (Keenleyside and Vatnesfell) in Brazil and besides shop inspection he has several times visited the customer's facilities for the purpose of in place measuring of components.