the team
Nathalie Moschou
Nathalie is the CEO of Moschou Marble SA, a leading Thassos marble extracting, processing and exporting company.
She is a passionate advocate for inclusive education and employment rights of individuals with disabilities. She is the founder of Life is for All. She serves on the Advisory Board and is an executive at “The Power of a Flower”, a social cooperative enterprise which employs individuals with special needs and aims to integrate them into the workforce through the cultivation, production, and distribution of Greek plants and flowers.
She actively engages in promoting the inclusion of individuals with neurodevelopmental differences and learning difficulties in schools, advising the Ministry of Education on such policy issues.
Nathalie participated in the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) in the US, on Inclusion in education, a prestigious exchange program sponsored by the US Department of State.
Tatiana Karapanagioti
Tatiana has many years of experience in the field of Communication Strategy, as well as the production of investigative journalism tv shows and educational and cultural documentaries. She has served as Minister of Culture & Tourism, Member of the Greek Parliament, Vice- President of the Greek Film Centre, and as member of the Board of Directors of “Terna Energy” and of the “Association of the Friends of Music”. She is the founder of “FULLVIEW”, she is part of the Consulting Committee of the Greek political think tank “Eliamep” and the NGO “Desmos”. She has received the Gold Medal of Honor of the Republic of Austria.
Dr Eleni Livaniou
Eleni is an educational psychologist specializing in specific and broad-spectrum learning disabilities, secondary psychological problems associated with them, and behavioral problems that arise in a regular school setting. Her research work focuses on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Dyslexia. She holds a BEd (Honours) from Brighton University, UK, an MSc from Sussex University and a PhD in Educational Psychology from the same university. She is also a Doctor of the University of Sussex and has led the postgraduate program of Nottingham Trent University, UK (2008-2014/ Course Leader – Master in Inclusive Education). She has developed an important research and teaching project, cooperating with many public and private educational institutions (1995/ERASMUS National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2014/ERASMUS National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Cyprus State University, Nottingham Trent University UK, 2019/ERASMUS – Board of Education for Vienna School Legislation, SOS Children’s Villages, PEKADE, Min. Cyprus Education and others). She is in charge of the Learning Disabilities Department at the Spyros Doxiadis Interdisciplinary & Therapeutic Unit. She is the president of the Hellenic Dyslexia Society and a member of the European Dyslexia Association. Since 1994 and to this day, she has taken part in numerous national and international conferences and has held many training seminars for teachers of all levels, underlining the necessity of continuous training on inclusion as well as the importance of bringing their knowledge uptodate with the latest available data.
Faidra Boukoura
Faidra has held leadership roles as Managing Director in companies specializing in plastics production and water bottling.
In 2009, she co-founded Laiza Animal Rescue, a nonprofit organization dedicated to rescuing and caring for stray dogs in the Argos region, where she remains an active member.
Additionally, Faidra volunteers with The Power of a Flower, a nonprofit advocating for employment inclusion of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. The organization creates meaningful employment opportunities in floriculture and the distribution of Greek flowers.
Margot Chatzinikolis
Margot is a lawyer and manages the family law firm for years.
She graduated from the School of Law of the University of Athens (UOA) and received her Master’s degree (LLM) from the London School of Economics.
She is a legal advisor to many companies and mainly deals with commercial and civil law cases.
She is particularly aware of the issue of the inclusion of people with neurodevelopmental peculiarities and tries to contribute to our company’s scope.
She participates in the non-profit company named NODE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AMKE, which is dedicated, based in the values of cooperation and solidarity and dedication to a common vision, to the promotion of medicine with the aim of the development of doctors in all fields and is based on voluntary contributions.
Polina Kosmadaki
Polina is an art historian living and working in Athens. She holds a Ph.D in Art History from the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne. She is currently Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Head of the Department of Paintings of the Benaki Museum, Athens and a Lecturer of Art History at Hellenic Open University. Since 2008 she is an associate researcher of the French School at Athens’ Modern Section, leading research projects on cultural exchanges between France and Greece, the editor and art critic Christian Zervos or the “ethnographic laboratories” of the period between the two World Wars. Her research interests lie in the avant-garde periodicals and exhibitions of the interwar period, the reception of Antiquity in contemporary art, institutional critique and exhibition history, the ethnographic turn of contemporary art, craft as critique. She has edited catalogues and contributed with articles and academic papers on modern and contemporary art in a number of journals and books. She has curated numerous exhibitions both for the Benaki Museum and as an independent curator.
Dr. Polina Kosmadaki
Curator of Modern and Contemporary art, Head of the Department of Paintings
BENAKI MUSEUM, Athens
https://benaki.academia.edu/PolinaKosmadaki
Rena Gyftoula
Rena is an Art educator. She has worked for 30 years in primary and secondary education (2000-2020 at the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation – Psychiko College, etc.).
She has collaborated with significant cultural institutions (the National Gallery, the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, the Museum of Cycladic Art, etc.).
She continually engages in professional development on artistic and educational topics and participates in volunteer charitable activities, focusing her interest on inclusion issues. She is a member of the Friends of NGO “Organization Earth”.