Antonios Sykaris
Alpinist | Entrepreneur
A professional climber with 28 years of experience in 17 countries and shrewd Greek entrepreneur Antonios Sykaris is a 'Member of Mount Everest: The Greek Expedition 2017' having raised the Greek flag with his rope-partner Mike Evmorfidis. Currently on a world record mission to climb multiple peaks in a short period of time around the world.
Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew I is the 270th and current Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch. He is widely regarded as the primus inter pares (first among equals) in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and as the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.
Ioannis Kampouris
Writer/Entrepreneur
Ioannis Kampouris immigrated from the island of Imbros to Athens at the age of 7. Today he teaches philology, authors educational manuals and is the chairman of the educational organisation he founded in 1989 dedicated to the preparation and career training of candidates for Higher Education. In 2015 he started producing an award-winning brand of Greek olive oil and other agricultural products that have received international acclaim as innovative products of Greece. He is married with three children and his passion to keep reinventing tradition while serving the next generation has made him a widely respected entrepreneur in Greece and beyond.
Social Entrepreneur
Natasha Marie Athanasiadou is an avid traveller, nature-lover, philanthropist, and advocate of using Fashion’s great influence to create positive change in the world. Born in London and raised in Athens after losing her mother and fashion designer, Elsa, to cancer at age twenty-two, she rejected her first investment-banking job, and started working in Fashion. From having just a romantic idea of the industry at the time with childhood memories in her mother’s studio, she ended up working in Fast-Fashion for ten years to experience first hand its unimaginable atrocities towards people and planet, while managing large scale fashion productions in India and China. Huge quantities, fast lead times, worker’s exploitation and heart-breaking poverty; all for an industry that looks so glossy and is so vastly influential.
Singer/Songwriter
Nikos Portokaloglou (December 30,1957) is a Greek musician who was the founding member, principal songwriter and lead singer and guitarist or the Greek band Fatme, active between 1981 and 1989. Since then, he has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, theatre,documentary and tv mini series. During his 35 years carrier he performed and recorded with all the major Greek composers and singers.
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School | Professor & Director of the Occupational Medicine Residency at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Dr. Stefanos N. Kales MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Professor & Director of the Occupational Medicine Residency at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Dr. Kales is also the Chief of Occupational & Environmental Medicine and Medical Director for Employee Health & Industrial Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard-affiliated hospital system. He has participated in a wide range of research, advisory and teaching activities on five continents resulting in over 150 publications and wide recognition nationally and internationally. He serves on the editorial boards of several biomedical journals and participates in Harvard’s Cardiovascular Epidemiology Program.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/stefanos-kales/
Theofanis Tasis
Philosopher
Theofanis Tasis was born and raised in Munich in 1976. He studied Physics at the University of Crete and was awarded his PhD in Philosophy with honors at the Freie Universität Berlin.
He is currently teaching Modern Philosophy at Alpen-Adria Universität and is also a member of the Humanitarian Academy of Berlin. He was a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University, a Marie Curie Fellow at Universite Saint-Louis in Brussels, and an Erasmus Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin.
He has taught in universities in Greece, Germany, and Austria. His research pertains to the relationship of politics, ethical and digital technology and revolves around the concepts of Image, Mortality, and the Art of Living.
Many of his works such as “Politics of Bios I: On Irony” , “Politics of Bios II: Self-care in the iconistic society” and “Castoriades: a philosophy of autonomy” have earned international awards and he is considered one of the most prolific philosophers of his generation.