Board of Directors

Maria Alexiou
Chair of the Board of the Hellenic Network for Corporate Social Responsibility, Consultant on Sustainability and CSR issues. Lawyer specialized in International and European Human Rights Law from the University of Leicester. Chair of the Board of the Hellenic Network for Corporate Social Responsibility since 2012, member of the Board of CSR Europe since 2018, and member of the Board of the Hellenic Network of the UN Global Compact. Participates in the Advisory Committee of HIGGS and voluntarily serves in the expert group of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG).
Currently holds the position of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Consultant at TITAN Group.

Maria Vasilakou
Maria Vasilakou served as Deputy Mayor and Deputy Governor of Vienna from 2010 to 2019. She was a consultant for Urban Development, Transport, Climate Protection, Energy Planning and Women's Participation, as well as Chair of the Green Parliamentary Group and Deputy Chair of the Austrian Greens. Since 2019, she has been advising on sustainable urban development through Vienna-Solutions.com and is a board member of the Horizon Mission for Climate Neutral and Smart Cities.

Dimitris Dermatas
Dr. Dimitris Dermatas is a Professor of Geoenvironmental Pollution at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He served as Chair of the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (2018-2019) and as Special Secretary of Inspectorate of the Ministry of Environment & Energy in Greece (2017-2019). He has held various leadership roles in waste management organizations in Greece and Europe. Previously, he was Director of the W. M. Keck Geoenvironmental Laboratory and Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. He has over 4300 citations and is listed among the top 2% of the world's leading scientists. Dr. Dermatas received his MS and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He volunteers for ‘Organization Earth,’ which he co-founded. He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, and has three children.

Epaminondas Euergetis
Epaminondas Evergetes is a PhD in ethnobotany and phytochemistry from the Athens School of Agriculture. For the last 20 years he has been working on research and development projects on agriculture, environment and biodiversity, collaborating with universities, local authorities and businesses. He has published over 30 articles in international journals and has been internationally recognized, including by the Chinese government. Since 2016 he has been collaborating with the Agricultural University of Athens and since 2023 he has been the curator of the Hippocratic Botanical Garden in Kos.

Christos Zouras
Christos Zouras envisioned the Earth Center and formed his relationship with the Earth Organization, which he co-founded in 2008 and ran for 7 years. Since then he has held a position on the Board of Directors as Honorary President.
In 2005-2008 he served as CEO of NGO ARCTUROS. In 2008-9 he was a permanent member of the National Council for Spatial Planning & Sustainable Development. He has experience in Public-Private Partnerships, having worked at Ernst & Young and co-founded M-Stat Mobile Statistics SA. Since 2015, he has been working at Costamare, with responsibilities in Internal Audit and Corporate Development.
He holds a Master in Public Administration from Bocconi University (Milan), a Bachelor of Business Administration from DEREE College, a Certificate in Financial Management from ALBA, and a Diploma in Internal Audit from the Hellenic Institute of Internal Auditors. He has also completed a Negotiation Training Program from Harvard University.

Nikos Karadiakos
Nikos lives and works in Thessaloniki, maintaining an Architectural Office, focusing on Bioclimatic Architecture and Ecological Design. He is a member of the Association of Bioclimatic and Holistic Architecture and a founding member of the Organization Earth. He is a graduate of the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Ioannina, the Faculty of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a Master's degree in "Environment and Sustainable Development" from the Department of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Lenia Kontogouri
Lenia Kontogouri is the General Director of the non-profit NGO Together for Children. She has served as an advisor to the Minister of Rural Development and Food on rural education issues and has worked for many years in the field of political communication. He started out doing television and performance productions but gradually moved away to focus on the political and civil society arenas. He studied sociology at Panteion University and holds an MA in Creative and Media Enterprises from Warwick University, UK. Her love for the environment and urban greening brought her to Organization Earth.

Sotiris Konstantinidis
Enthusiastic traveler and nature lover from Athens, always with a dog by his side. Owner of a travel agency for over 20 years, specializing in safaris in Africa and trekking in the Himalayas. He works in the humanitarian sector with missions in Kosovo, Iraq and Moria, and now as SMS program manager at the refugee shelter in Elaiona. A marketing degree holder, with a skydiving license, a caver, a trained wildlife ranger, he has climbed Kilimanjaro and crossed the Sahara. Founder of holistic nutrition and rehabilitation space for dogs and organiser of camping and motorcycling trips. Dedicated to the Earth Center, always looking for the next sustainable cause.

Dinos Macheiras
National Coordinator EU Climate Pact for Greece. Team Leader at Aephoria.Net. President of the Hellenic Platform for Development. Member of the Steering Committee of SDG Watch Europe. Secretary General for the Mediterranean countries in the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM). Member of the Boards of ActionAid Hellas, the Special Education Laboratory "Margarita" and the Greek Network for the UN Global Compact. He was Executive Director of the Earth Organization from 2015 to 2021.

Andreas Stefanidis
Andreas Stephanidis is President of the Athens Educational Association "Hephaestus" and the Academy of Entrepreneurship. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in Business Administration from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a certified adult educator by EOPPEP and has taught at various educational institutions including New York College and the University of New York Tirana. In 2001, he founded the Federation of Greek Young Entrepreneurs Associations (OESYNE), and in 2014 he took over the leadership of Aephoria.net and the Bluegrowth initiative, supporting innovative and sustainable business ideas in the marine economy.
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Annual Report of the Certified Public Accountant and Balance Sheets 2021- 2022
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Reports 2021 - 2022 - 2023
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