Athens International Airport
Discover the board of directors of Athens International Airport and meet the core members.
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Athens International Airport
Michail Kefalogiannis holds a diploma in Economics (Diplom Volkswirt) from the University of Cologne, Germany and an MBA in General Management from Baruch College, New York, USA. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Kefalogiannis was a principal for the private equity arm of Commercial Bank of Greece. Between 2000 and 2014, he acted as Chief Executive Officer, executive Vice-Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of large corporates in Greece, including Alpha TV, CosmoLine telecommunications and Village Roadshow, and has served on the executive management boards of banking and insurance organizations (including Interamerican). Mr. Kefalogiannis has also led and coordinated several important Greek Government projects, including among others the successful privatization of Olympic Airways in the period 2007–2009. In addition, he has served among others as an independent non-executive member on the board of directors of Attica Bank and has been for a decade Chairman of the board of Greek Tourism and Hotel Enterprises of Crete S.A. (a resort hotel operator). Mr. Kefalogiannis currently serves as independent non-executive Chairman of the board of Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (DEDDIE), as well as a non-executive member on the board of directors of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF). He is also the co-founder and managing partner of Canary Wharf Value Partners, an investment advisory firm based in Athens.

Gerhard Schroeder holds a diploma in Economics from Die Universität Siegen (formerly known as Universität-Gesamthochschule Siegen). He has held various management positions, including Chairman of Airport Strategic Consultants at Sydney Airport and member of the board of directors of Sydney Airport. From 2007 to 2011, he held the position of deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Finance Officer at Budapest Airport. Mr. Schroeder is the Chief Executive Officer of AviAlliance, Chairman of the board of directors of Budapest Airport, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hamburg Airport and member of the Supervisory Board of Düsseldorf Airport.

Ioannis Paraschis holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Paraschis is a Chartered Engineer, qualified in 1986 from the Technical Chamber of Greece. He joined AIA following an international career in academia and management consulting with A.T. Kearney and Deloitte. Mr. Paraschis serves on boards and councils of companies, academic institutions and trade associations in Greece and abroad, including, as member of the board of ACI EUROPE (Chairman 2007 – 2009), member of the World Governing Board of ACI (Chairman 2011 – 2013), President of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE) and Chair of the Greek Council of the Sustainable Markets Initiative (Terra Carta). Mr. Paraschis was honored in October 2015 with the first “CAPA Airport Chief Executive of the Year” award. He served as the Company’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer from January 2002 to April 2007 and is the Company’s Chief Executive Officer since May 2007. Mr. Paraschis is also Chairman of the Board of Executives of AIA since May 2007 and a member of the board of directors of Marketing Greece S.A. since 2013.

Ian Andrews graduated with a degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University in 1986 and qualified as an English solicitor in 1989. He has been involved with the international infrastructure market for over thirty years, having been a partner of Linklaters LLP for twenty-two years until April 2022 and the Sector Leader for its Infrastructure practice for the last eighteen years of that period. Mr. Andrews has been a director and trustee for The English Concert since July 2023.

Sven Erler holds a diploma in Business from Fachhochschule Bochum, Germany and a master’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management (FOM), Essen, Germany. He is an executive director of asset management at AviAlliance GmbH and a managing director of Airport Holding Kft. (AHK) and Airport Hungary Kft. Mr. Erler is an executive director of Hamburg Airport Partners Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, where he previously was a managing director until September 2021. He is also a member of the supervisory board and the investment committee of Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH (FDG), an executive director of Airport Partners GmbH, and a member of the board of managers of Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC (San Juan International Airport).

Janis Carol Kong, OBE, holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Edinburgh and has completed the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Open University in 1999. Ms. Kong held various management positions at Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited (formerly British Airports Authority or BAA) for 33 years until 2006, including, among others, executive Chairman of Heathrow Airport (from 2001 to 2006), BAA Plc board director (from 2002 to 2006) and Chairman of Heathrow Express (from 2005 to 2006). She has held various non-executive directorships including, most recently, at Portmeirion Group Plc (from 1999 to 2020) and TUI AG (from 2012 to 2020). Ms. Kong is a director of Copenhagen Airport since 2012, the Chair of the board of directors of Bristol Airport since 2014, and a director of Roadis Transportation Holding SLU since 2017. Ms Kong was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) title in 2002 for services to Transport and to Regional Development in South-East England.

Charalampos Pamboukis holds a degree of general education and of higher education from Université Paris I – Panthéon – Sorbonne, France, and a doctoral degree in Law from the Sorbonne School of Law, France. Mr. Pamboukis was a member of the Greek government, including as Minister of State to the Greek Prime Minister and as Secretary General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Greece. Mr. Pamboukis has been honored with the order of merit of “Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur” by the French government. He is a Professor of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece since 1991 and a partner at Pamboukis-Maravelis-Nikolaidis & Co. Law Firm since January 2004. He is also a director of the Hellenic Institute of Foreign and International Law, Greece since 2020, and a member of the board of directors of INTRAKAT S.A. since July 2022.

Robert Goebbels was a member of the Luxembourg government from 1984 to 1999, in charge of Economy, Transportation, Energy and Infrastructures and a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014. Until 2020, he was a member of the board of directors of Automobile Club de Luxembourg, S.A. and the Luxembourg Freeport. Mr. Goebbels acts as Governor for Luxembourg for the Asia-Europe Foundation and as independent director for CEB-Bank (Europe) S.A., Luxembourg since 2018.

Thiresia (Teresa) Farmaki holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Athens, Greece and an MBA from Columbia Business School, United States. She has over 20 years’ experience in finance and private equity investments with particular specialization on infrastructure and sustainability. From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Farmaki was an associate director at UBS Investment Bank in New York (Global Utilities and Renewable Energy group) and London (M&A group). From 2007 to 2011, she acted as Chief Investment Officer at Piraeus Equity Advisors, the private equity arm of Piraeus Bank Group, during which time she co-led the establishment of the private equity group and launched three private equity and venture capital funds, among others. Ms. Farmaki was a managing director and head of private equity at Signia Wealth, a multi-family office (from 2013 to 2016) and in 2015 she co-founded Astarte Capital Partners LLP (Astarte) in London, UK, an asset management firm focused on infrastructure, natural capital and real estate managing capital for institutional investors globally. Since 2015 Ms. Farmaki has been the managing partner and a member of the Investment Committee at Astarte overseeing the investments, where she structured and launched, among others, a UK real estate platform focused on large urban regeneration projects in London with significant social engagement and a Latin American impact forestry fund with leading role in carbon credits and nature-based solutions and is a member of the Investment Committee of both. Ms. Farmaki was a speaker at COP26 and COP28 and has been awarded as top 100 women of influence by Financial News for two years in row in 2022 and 2023.

Konstantinos Kollias was born in Larissa in 1976. He studied Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Piraeus and a PhD on the same subject from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a visiting professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics, Partner at a consulting firm, Business Development Consultant at a Law Firm and member of the Board of Directors of the Athens International Airport, where he has also served as Chairman of the Audit Committee. He has served as Special Secretary for Privatizations at the Ministry of Finance; Director General at the Educational Center for Public Servants of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Alternate Governor of the Board of Governors of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB), representing the Hellenic Republic; Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Gas Distribution Company S.A.; member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Urban Transport Organization; financial advisor to the Minister at the Ministry of Economy and Finance and visiting professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business. In February 2014 he was elected President of the Economic Chamber of Greece for the first time and in January 2024 he was reelected President for the firth time.

Aikaterini Savvaidou holds a degree in Law from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, a diploma of higher education in French Studies from Université Jean – Moulin-Lyon III, a master’s degree in Public Law from Université de Paris I – Sorbonne, and a master’s degree in Public Finance and Tax Law and a doctoral degree from Université de Paris II, Assas. Ms. Savvaidou has previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen and has taught at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Greek National School of Public Administration and the Greek National School of Judges. Ms. Savvaidou served as the Secretary General of Public Revenue in the Greek Ministry of Finance between June 2014 and October 2015 and acted as special tax advisor to the Greek Deputy Minister of Finance. She is an Associate Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Law) and a visiting professor at the University of Macedonia (Department of Economics). She has been awarded the Jean Monnet Chair in European Tax Policy and Administration by the European Commission.

Lorraine Scaramangas is a graduate of the University of Glasgow with a degree (MA) (in Language and Literature) and a bachelor’s degree (LLB) (Scots Law). She worked for Arthur Andersen, London, between 1979 and 1985, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1984, and for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Athens, between 1985 and 2003, becoming a partner in 1991 and head of the Financial Services group in 1998. She was a consultant and finance director at Alpha Tankers & Freighters International Ltd. (from 2005 to 2011) and chaired the audit committees of Eurobank’s subsidiary banks in Bulgaria and Serbia from 2007 to 2020. She has also acted as a Quality Assurance consultant to the Internal Audit function of Eurobank and provided ad hoc consultancy services in the shipping sector. Ms. Scaramangas is a member of the board of directors and Chair of the audit committee of HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings S.A. and a member of the board of directors and audit committee of Eurobank Private Bank Luxembourg.