Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

Gianna Angelopoulos–Daskalaki Olympic Order
Γιάννα Αγγελοπούλου-Δασκαλάκη
President “Greece 2021” National Committee
In office 31 July 2019 – 31 December 2021
President of the Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
In office 1 October 2000 – 29 August 2004
IOC President	Juan Antonio Samaranch (2000–01) Jacques Rogge (2001–04)
Preceded by	Michael Knight
Succeeded by	Liu Qi
Chair of the Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
In office 15 May 2000 – 8 July 2005 Chair of the Athens bid: 1996 – 1997
Preceded by	Panagiotis Thomopoulos
Succeeded by	Position dissolved
Convening Sponsor, Clinton Global Initiative Honorary Ambassador of the Greek State
Personal details
Born	(1955-12-12) 12 December 1955 (age 68) Heraklion, Greece

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki (born Ioanna Daskalaki, December 12, 1955) is a Greek businesswoman and Ambassador-at-Large for the Hellenic Republic.^[1] She is best known for being the leader of the bidding and organizing committees for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In July 2019, she was appointed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to lead Greece 2021, a year-long initiative to both commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution and to introduce to the world a new Greece of effort and optimism.^[2]

She was named one of the 50 most powerful women by Forbes magazine and is the author of the New York Times Bestseller My Greek Drama.