12 Facts About Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was born on Ioanna Daskalaki, December 12,1955 and is a Greek businesswoman and Ambassador-at-Large for the Hellenic Republic.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki is best known for being the leader of the bidding and organizing committees for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was named one of the 50 most powerful women by Forbes magazine and is the author of the New York Times Bestseller My Greek Drama.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki is the mother of three children, Panagiotis, Dimitris, and Carolina Angelopoulos, and the grandmother of five grandchildren.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was paid for this appointment and donates the sums to several Greek charities each year.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was however excluded from the initial organization committee that would prepare for the games.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was the first woman to hold this position.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki attended the opening ceremony of the next Olympics, in Torino, Italy.

In 1995, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki co-chaired, along with Kennedy School Professor Graham Allison, a Harvard Leadership Symposium titled The Greek Paradox: Promise vs Performance, which addressed the gap between Greece's potential and its performance in the realms of politics, economic growth, and regional leadership.

In 2013, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki established the Angelopoulos Clinton Global Initiative University Fellowship program to recruit, select and sponsor Greek students with implementable entrepreneurial ideas.

In February 2019, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki Angelopoulos established an innovative program at Cambridge University that further reflects her commitment to education, entrepreneurship and economic growth.

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki is the author of My Greek Drama: Life, Love, and One Woman's Olympic Effort to Bring Glory to Her Country.