Despina Andreadou - the Group Chief Audit Executive of Eurobank (Greece)

Despina Andreadou is for the last 23 years the Group Chief Audit Executive of Eurobank S.A, a European banking organization, offering universal banking across seven countries. Being one of the four Systemic banks in Greece, Eurobank has a strong presence in Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia, and offers Wealth Management services in Cyprus, Luxembourg and London.

Despina is leading the Internal Audit Group General Division of nearly 120 professionals across Eurobank group, including Greek and foreign subsidiaries. Previously, she served for eight years in the Audit and Business Advisory Services division of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Greece. Prior to joining PwC, Despina qualified in the audit department of Ernst & Young in Manchester, UK.

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Eleni Kaloyirou, CEO of Hermes Airports

Eleni Kaloyirou is the CEO of Hermes Airports, since May 2016. She previously held the position of CFO and Executive Manager Business Control since joining the company in 2014.

She has over 25 years of work experience mainly in the airline industry, in the position of CFO and then deputy CEO of Cyprus Airways. She also has experience in the property development business and the accounting profession having worked for KPMG in Cyprus and London. In June 2019 she was appointed to the Board of ACI Europe. Since 2018 she has been a member of the ICAEW Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Community advisory group.

Eleni is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus. She holds a BA and an MA degree in Economics from Cambridge University..

Dara Latinwo is a One Young World (OYW) ambassador who was selected to attend the prestigious 2017 OYW annual summit, held in Bogotá, Colombia.

More generally, she is a Digital Transformation & Innovation consultant, with particular areas of focus being Digital Acceleration and Workforce Transformation. She is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and currently sits on the ICAEW’s Sustainability Committee.

Having lived and worked across four different continents, she is passionate about rethinking and redesigning the paradigm within which organisations operate, such that sustainability - economic, environmental and societal - sits at the heart of solutions and strategies proposed for the future.

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