Marilena Ioannidou

Co-Managing Director, First Elements Euroconsultants Ltd.

Marilena Ioannidou is a strategic thinker bringing over 16 years of experience in development projects across diverse industries. Recognized for her talents in strategy development, programme management across the board and capacity development.

She has a diverse background in the humanitarian field and social issues, SME and business development, entrepreneurship, social research and studies, fund management, monitoring and evaluation, and financial management. She has managed and evaluated over 50 projects with budgets of 30M+. She has designed and implemented organizational and operational capacity development of companies and NGOs and has managed and monitored grant funds for NGOs.

She holds a Master of Business Administration, Cyprus International Institute of Management and a Bachelor of Arts, with Double Major in Psychology and French with Honours from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. She is co-Managing Director at First Elements Euroconsultants Ltd.