Kyriakos Pierrakakis

Kyriakos Pierrakakis is the Chairman of Greece’s Institute for Youth, which is supervised by the Greek Ministry of Education and focuses on youth entrepreneurship and innovation issues. An interdisciplinary policy thinker, Kyriakos has been trained in economics, international relations, political science and computer science. He is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oxford and a graduate of the Engineering Systems Division of MIT, of the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University and of the Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business. Kyriakos has worked as an analyst at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT and at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC. He has attended TEDGlobal 2009 & 2010.