Board of Directors

EKKOMED is governed by a seven-member Board of Directors and its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with distinct responsibilities for the organisation’s strategic oversight and executive management.

The Board of Directors sets EKKOMED’s strategic direction, decides on key matters concerning the organisation’s operation and development, and oversees the achievement of its objectives.

The Chief Executive Officer is responsible for EKKOMED’s executive management and day-to-day operations. The CEO ensures the implementation of the organisation’s strategy and the decisions of the Board, coordinates EKKOMED’s operations and represents the organisation in Greece and internationally, in accordance with the responsibilities of the role.

The Board of Directors serves a four-year term.

Alexandra Argyropoulou Puri

PRESIDENT

ARGYROPOULOU POURI ALEXANDRA

PRESIDENT

Alexandra Argyropoulou Pouri is a lawyer, founding member and partner at AP LEGAL Law Firm specializing in the field of commercial law and technology, telecommunications and audiovisual media.

For the last 20 years she has provided services with international recognition to large companies in Greece and abroad. She has also collaborated with the Greek Film Centre and EKOME.

She speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.

Alexandra Argyropoulou Puri

ARGYROPOULOU POURI ALEXANDRA

PRESIDENT

Alexandra Argyropoulou Pouri is a lawyer, founding member and partner at AP LEGAL Law Firm specializing in the field of commercial law and technology, telecommunications and audiovisual media.

For the last 20 years she has provided services with international recognition to large companies in Greece and abroad. She has also collaborated with the Greek Film Centre and EKOME.

She speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.

PRESIDENT

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ARGYROPOULOU POURI ALEXANDRA

PRESIDENT

Alexandra Argyropoulou Pouri is a lawyer, founding member and partner at AP LEGAL Law Firm specializing in the field of commercial law and technology, telecommunications and audiovisual media.

For the last 20 years she has provided services with international recognition to large companies in Greece and abroad. She has also collaborated with the Greek Film Centre and EKOME.

She speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.

Leonidas Christopoulos

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΟΓΡΑΦΟΥ, ΟΠΤΙΚΟΑΚΟΥΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΣΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΙΑΣ Α.Ε.-Ε.Κ.Κ.Ο.ΜΕ.Δ. Α.Ε.

Leonidas Christopoulos

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Leonidas Christopoulos took over as Chief Executive Officer of EKKOMED-Creative Greece in September 2024 while from 2023 to 2024 he held the position of President and CEO of EKOME.

He was the Secretary General of Digital Governance and Simplification of Procedures of the Ministry of Digital Governance, from July 2019 to July 2023, and had EKOME under his supervision. During this period, significant improvements were made to the cash rebate scheme for audiovisual works in Greece, while the Tax Relief incentive was reactivated, and the Fund of Guaranteeing Loan for Companies Producing Audiovisual Work was established, in collaboration with the Development Bank.

Moreover, he was responsible for planning and implementing Greece’s digital strategy through the Digital Transformation Bible, the strategy for Artificial Intelligence and digital skills, the new Operational Program “Digital Transformation” of the NSRF 2021-2027, the upgrading of KEP and the policy for the simplification and digitalization of procedures through Gov.gr and the National Register of Mitos Procedures.

He has worked in the Ministries of Development, Finance, Education and Religious Affairs, Environment and Energy and Interior, while in the period 2016-2019 he was an advisor to the President of the Official Opposition on issues of State, Public Administration and Education.

He holds a BSc. in Political and International Studies from Panteion University of Political and Social Studies, Athens, and an M.A. in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, where he studied Political Economy of Mass Media. He is, also, a graduate of the National School of Public Administration and Local Government of Greece.

He speaks English and German.

Leonidas Christopoulos

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Leonidas Christopoulos took over as Chief Executive Officer of EKKOMED-Creative Greece in September 2024 while from 2023 to 2024 he held the position of President and CEO of EKOME.

He speaks English and German.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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Leonidas Christopoulos

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Leonidas Christopoulos took over as Chief Executive Officer of EKKOMED-Creative Greece in September 2024 while from 2023 to 2024 he held the position of President and CEO of EKOME.

He speaks English and German.

Konstantinos Vrettos

MEMBER

VRETTOS KONSTANTINOS

MEMBER

Konstantinos Vrettos is an Economist (Mphil, Phd) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and graduate of the National School of Public Administration.

Since 2023 he holds the position of Director of the Special Office of the Secretary General of Fiscal Policy (General Accounting Office of the State) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, while in period 2019-2023 he was Director of the Special Office of the Secretary General of Social Insurance of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.

At the same time, he was a Member of the Board of Directors of the Mariners Retirement Fund (NAT) for the years 2022-2023. As a public administrator he has served in the Ministries of Development and Investments, Labor and Social Security and National Economy and Finance. At the same time, he was a member of the Project Management Group of the 3^rd OECD Toolbox to identify regulatory obstacles to competition in specific sectors of the Greek economy.

In the past he had worked as a Researcher at the University of Cambridge (Centre for International Business and Management, Cambridge Judge Business School), at the Bank of Greece and at ELIAMEP, as a scientific advisor at EOMEXX SA., as a lecturer at Quenn’s College of the University of Cambridge and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and as an economist in the private sector.

In recent years, he has also been actively involved in the field of new technologies and social networks, as he is the co-founder and co-manager of the @In Athens Instagram Hub, which attempts to promote the tourism of Athens, while collaborating as a visitor Lecturer with the Department of Communication and Media of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Konstantinos Vrettos

VRETTOS KONSTANTINOS

MEMBER

Konstantinos Vrettos is an Economist (Mphil, Phd) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and graduate of the National School of Public Administration.

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VRETTOS KONSTANTINOS

MEMBER

Konstantinos Vrettos is an Economist (Mphil, Phd) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and graduate of the National School of Public Administration.

Argyris Peroulakis

MEMBER

PEROULAKIS ARGYRIS

MEMBER

Argyris Peroulakis is a Mechanical Engineer specializing in Telematics and Organization from ULB Brussels. Ηe has worked for 30 years as an executive of the European Commission (1989-2019).

He has many years of experience in the domain of New Information Technologies and Communication strategy, Innovation, Regional Development programs, Human Resource development and reforms in Public Administration as well as the field of Communication serving in corresponding positions of the European Commission.

He was deputy head of the Delegation of the European Commission in Greece during the period 2010-2017. In the last four years he served initially as a member and for three years as a President of the Board of the National Documentation Center – Electronic Content (2019-2023).

He speaks English and French.

Argyris Peroulakis

PEROULAKIS ARGYRIS

MEMBER

Argyris Peroulakis is a Mechanical Engineer specializing in Telematics and Organization from ULB Brussels. Ηe has worked for 30 years as an executive of the European Commission (1989-2019).

He speaks English and French.

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PEROULAKIS ARGYRIS

MEMBER

Argyris Peroulakis is a Mechanical Engineer specializing in Telematics and Organization from ULB Brussels. Ηe has worked for 30 years as an executive of the European Commission (1989-2019).

He speaks English and French.

Monika Niki Tsilimperdi

MEMBER

TSILIMPERDI MONIKA NIKI

MEMBER

Monika Niki Tsilimperdi is the Head of the Directorate for the Development of Contemporary Creation at the Ministry of Culture. She studied Archaeology and Art History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds an MA in Landscape Studies from the University of Leicester. She is a graduate of the National School of Public Administration and a PhD candidate at Panteion University, focusing on the developmental dimension of cultural collaborative spaces.

She has worked in the art market as an art historian (Michalarias, Christie’s) and as a journalist for magazines and public television. In public administration, besides the Ministry of Culture, she has also served at the Ministry of Development and Competitiveness and the Ministry of Tourism, gaining experience in policy design, the management of EU co-funded and competitive programs, as well as in the administration of Recovery Fund projects.

She has been a national expert to the European Commission on cultural entrepreneurship, innovation, and extroversion, and a member of the Creative Europe Management Committee. She has also served on the Board of Directors of Elefsina – European Capital of Culture 2023.

Her work focuses on the developmental dimension of the cultural and creative sector, on the Status of the Artist, and on promoting inclusion, particularly regarding access for vulnerable groups and persons with disabilities to contemporary creation. She teaches issues of cultural management, contemporary culture, and inclusion at the National School of Public Administration and the Institute of Training.

Monika Niki Tsilimperdi

TSILIMPERDI MONIKA NIKI

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Dafni Chatziprokopiou

MEMBER

CHATZIPROKOPIOU DAFNI

MEMBER

Dafni Chatziprokopiou is a lawyer based in Athens. Since 2008, she has been practicing consulting and advocating in court specializing in intellectual and industrial property and commercial law.

She maintains a law office and has been working with the National Opera since 2020. She was a member and then President of the Board of Directors of the Greek Film Centre.

Dafni Chatziprokopiou

CHATZIPROKOPIOU DAFNI

MEMBER

Dafni Chatziprokopiou is a lawyer based in Athens. Since 2008, she has been practicing consulting and advocating in court specializing in intellectual and industrial property and commercial law.

She maintains a law office and has been working with the National Opera since 2020. She was a member and then President of the Board of Directors of the Greek Film Centre.

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CHATZIPROKOPIOU DAFNI

MEMBER

Dafni Chatziprokopiou is a lawyer based in Athens. Since 2008, she has been practicing consulting and advocating in court specializing in intellectual and industrial property and commercial law.

She maintains a law office and has been working with the National Opera since 2020. She was a member and then President of the Board of Directors of the Greek Film Centre.

Georgios Christopoulos

MEMBER

CHRISTOPOULOS GEORGIOS

MEMBER

Georgios Christopoulos is the Financial Director of Information Society SA. He graduated from Law School (2001) and holds a Master’s degree in Business Tax Law from the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan (2002).

He has served as a legal advisor to companies as a partner of the law firm G. Kostakopoulos & Associates based in Athens and Brussels.

For the past 20 consecutive years, he has been dealing with the subjects of state aid, public tenders, public contracts, financial management of projects and personal data concerning Co-financed Projects, European Programs, the Recovery Fund and Special National Funds.

He speaks Italian and English.

Georgios Christopoulos

CHRISTOPOULOS GEORGIOS

MEMBER

He has served as a legal advisor to companies as a partner of the law firm G. Kostakopoulos & Associates based in Athens and Brussels.

He speaks Italian and English.

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CHRISTOPOULOS GEORGIOS

MEMBER

He has served as a legal advisor to companies as a partner of the law firm G. Kostakopoulos & Associates based in Athens and Brussels.

He speaks Italian and English.

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