Biography
Rania has over 26 years of professional experience, including positions of high responsibility, across different sectors.
In June 2004, she was elected Vice Chair of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) and subsequently appointed President of the Executive Committee. SEV is Greece's most important business association, representing large, medium and small enterprises from industrial, commercial and services’ sectors. SEV members account for almost half the private sector revenue generated in Greece. Also, SEV is a member of BusinessEurope.
Over the last few years, Rania has been advising large corporates on strategy, investments and corporate governance, while she serves as an independent board director in several boards of large companies, including ElvalHalcor S.A., Motor Oil S.A., Coral S.A. and HEDNO S.A. (two of which are listed and part of the Athens Large Cap 25 Index). She is also Chair of the Nom & Rem Committee of Motor Oil, member of the Audit Committee of ElvalHalcor and member of the Sustainability Committee of both groups. In the board of HEDNO, Rania was nominated by Macquarie Asset Management (#1 infra fund globally) which has acquired an equity stake of 49%.
Important positions in her career include: CEO of the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations (HCAP), Greece’s sovereign fund, with majority shareholdings in large state-owned enterprises and sole shareholder of the Privatisation Fund (HRADF) and of the Public Properties Company (ETAD). Partner at Ernst & Young (EY) in Transaction Advisory Services and Energy Sector Leader for SE Europe. Deputy CEO and member of the Board of Public Power Corporation (PPC), the leading listed Greek electric utility. Previously, Rania also worked for more than 10 years in Corporate and Investment Banking in London and in Athens, for Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and Eurobank. She began her career at Texaco in the 90s, in the oil and gas sector in the Caspian region in business development.
Currently, she is member of the Advisory Board of Dianeosis, the leading non-profit think tank institute in Greece on social, economic and policy reforms matters. She is also member of the Leadership Committee of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM). In the past, she served as member of the Hellenic Corporate Governance Council (HCGC) and of the Council of Competitiveness in Greece.
Rania participates in various international non-profit organisations for gender parity; she is the Athens Chair for 50/50 Women on Boards, co-chair of the Greek Chapter of WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) and member of the European Network of Women in Leadership.
She graduated from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She holds an MBA from City University in London (Bayes Business School).
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