Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

Gianna Angelopoulos - Daskalaki (Greek Γιάννα Αγγελοπούλου Δασκαλάκη; born December 12, 1955 in Heraklion, Crete ) is a Greek politician and businesswoman.

Angelopoulos - Daskalaki studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and was in the late 1980s, active in the political arena Athens. From 1989 to 1990 she was a member of Parliament. In 1990 she married the billionaire owners and Theo Angelopoulos and also since been working in the industry. Since 1994 she has been the Deputy Director of the Harvard University 's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1998 she was appointed by the Greek government as Ambassador.

She is best known as the president of the organizing committee ATHOC the XXVIII. Summer Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. It was designated by Forbes Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women. Disappointed with the loss of the 100 - year - Games at Atlanta in 1996, she decided to apply for the 2004 Summer Games. It was then officially appointed President of the Organizing Committee and successfully brought the Games to Athens.

In the Greek public is a respected and popular woman, but is also often criticized due to their very pronounced self-confidence. You will always be treated as a future prime minister of Greece. She was also the beginning of 2006 as a future mayor of Athens in the conversation, but due to a newspaper article in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica decreased their chances for a successful candidacy.

• Member of Parliament (Greece )
• Person ( Crete)
• Greek
• Born in 1955
• Woman