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Panagiota Polykarpou is a social innovator and change maker, currently based in Cyprus. She holds a degree in Business and Public Administration from the University of Cyprus and a Master’s in Social Innovation and Management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In 2019, she was nominated as one of the European Leaders representing Cyprus to the United States as the recipient of the S.U.S.I Program Scholarship, which focused on Social Entrepreneurship and Leadership. She was also selected as one of the 2024 Voices of a New Era of Leaders as part of the global Leadership: Redefined movement by The Female Factor.

Her passion interests focus on gender equality, diversity, and inclusion. In 2020, she co-founded the first digital content platform for gender equality in Cyprus called “Thkio Logia” (Θκύο Λόγια) and co-authored the book “A Book About Equality – A Few Words for a Big Change.” By 2022, the campaign had received the NGO CSW65 Young Feminist Award as one of the top 20 initiatives globally committed to gender equality, reached over 500k people, and sold over 2,000 copies of the book translated into Greek, English, and Turkish.