Biography
Marina Niforos is an academic, board director and deep-tech strategist. She is the President of the Climate Governance Initiative Greece, part of the WEF network of Board Director associations leading climate action in the boardroom. A world recognised expert on Blockchain and Web3, she was the lead author of the IFC-World Bank report on Blockchain: Opportunities for Private Enterprises in Emerging Markets and a frequent contributor in media (Bloomberg, FT, CoinDesk and others). She serves as Jury Expert Member for the European Innovation Council Accelerator and Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) in investment programmes in deep tech. EU Startups named Marina “one of five female leaders driving change in the European blockchain ecosystem”.
Marina was Affilliate Professor at HEC business school and served Board mandates with the GrowthFund-The National Fund of Greece (sovereign fund), Séché Environnement (Euronext-listed), the European Network for Women in Leadership and the US National Commission for UNESCO (appointed in 2012 by US Secretary of State H. Clinton). She is currently on the Advisory Board of Urban Impact Fund, a Dutch impact VC firm.
In the past, Marina served in senior positions with the American Chamber of Commerce of France, INSEAD, the Pechiney Group and the World Bank Group in Latin America. She received the World Bank Award for Excellence by President Wolfensohn for her service with sovereign debt conversion in Colombia. Ms. Niforos holds an IDP-C and an MBA from INSEAD, a MGA from the U. of Pennsylvania/SAIS-Johns Hopkins University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University.
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