Eleni Myrivili
Chief Resilient Officer
City of Athens
Eleni Myrivili comes to the position of chief resilient officer as an elected councilmember in the city of Athens currently holding the urban-sustainability portfolio, and has held elected leadership positions for several years in the Greek Green Party’s Executive Leadership Committee.
She got her Ph.D from Columbia University in socio-cultural anthropology. She is an assistant professor in the department of cultural technology and communications, University of the Aegean, Greece. Interested in the knowledge-society relationship, she has always been active in projects that go beyond the walls of the academy: designing multimedia museum exhibitions/applications, curating events/festivals, participating in civil society organizations.
She has been an active member of environmental CSOs (IWAF, Friends of the Earth, Slow Food), and written/hosted a public television documentary series on sustainability. She was a member of EastboardNet (COST ESF), a Deputy Coordinator for an FP7 European research program, and a researcher for the Centre National d’ Art et de Culture George Pompidou, France.