Program Director

About Us: The AXIOS Project is an action hub galvanizing the Greek diaspora's ingenuity, philotimo, and resources toward solving climate and environmental challenges in the homeland of our ancestors—and for the benefit of all humanity. We raise awareness, cultivate networks, and mobilize philanthropic and investment capital toward high-leverage projects and opportunities. Greece sits at the center of a global "climate hotspot" — warming faster and more intensely than almost anywhere else on earth, with wildfires, extreme heat, and water scarcity threatening the country's people, culture, and natural beauty. But we believe Greece can also be a proving ground: solutions and technologies developed and tested here — from wildfire tech to water desalination to advanced irrigation — will be needed across the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. We are building the connective tissue between Greece's most urgent environmental needs and the extraordinary constellation of Greek and Greek-American entrepreneurs, scientists, executives, and philanthropists already leading in this space. The AXIOS Project exists because we believe the Greek diaspora — particularly the Greek-American community — can and should punch above its weight in tackling the defining climate and environmental challenges of our time.