S3:E2 A vision of impact – Elly Andriopoulou in conversation with Criena Gehrke
Guest
Elly Andriopoulou
In conversation with
Criena Gehrke
In this episode, our host Criena Gehrke talks with Elly Andriopoulou, Managing Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC). The two discuss the origins and evolution of SNFCC – as well as its early successes, stemming from a strong vision of enacting social impact and the ambition to be a cultural center for all. Criena wraps up the episode with her thoughts on Australia’s recently released National Cultural Policy.
Date of Recording
7 December 2022
Date of Publication
16 February 2023
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Criena Gehrke: Hello and welcome to The Three Bells. This podcast is one of a series brought to you by AEA Consulting for the Global Cultural Districts Network, in which we explore what's happening around the world on those busy and sometimes congested intersections of cultural and urban life.
I'm currently speaking to you from the lands of the Kombumerri people of the Yugambeh language region here on the Gold Coast. I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the many lands we gather on today and pay my respects to elders past and present. Our First Nations people are the original storytellers and custodians of culture. I'm Criena Gehrke, and today I'm very excited to be chatting with Elly Andriopoulou, the chairwoman and managing director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, or SNFCC as we're going to call it because that's quite a mouthful.
Before joining the SNFCC, Elly held leadership positions in banking, strategy, consulting, and most recently philanthropy. In 2012, she joined the Stavros Niarchos Foundation where she prepared the business plan and future operation of the foundation's largest grant under construction, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, and later managed the 50 million Euro grants through which the SNF supported the first five years of the operations of that great cultural centre after it had been donated to the Greek state. Elly, welcome to The Three Bells.
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Elly Andriopoulou: Nice to be here, Criena. Thank you for having me.
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About Our Speakers
Elly Andriopoulou is the Chairwoman and Managing Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), appointed in June 2020. Before joining the SNFCC, Elly held leadership positions in banking, strategy consulting, and most recently, philanthropy. She holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a BA in Psychology from Deree College. +
Adrian Ellis is the founder of AEA Consulting (1990) and the Global Cultural Districts Network (2013). He has worked in senior management and as a board member in both museums and the performing arts and as a strategy consultant to leading clients in the cultural, public, and business sectors around the world. +
