Sofia Karagianni

Sofia Karagianni

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
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My mother once told a teenaged me that I would not be satisfied unless I solve some of…

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Experience

Education

  • MIT Sloan School of Management Graphic

    MIT Sloan School of Management

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    Activities and Societies: Managing Director, MIT Energy Conference

    Enterprise and Management Certificate; Sustainability Certificate

    Angelicoussis Fellowship; Zonta Scholarship

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    Lights on Women Scholar

  • Class rank: 4/30

    Areas of focus:
    Taxation,Corporate transactions, IT Law, International private law, International economic law, Comparative law, Public Finances, Administrative law, Civil procedure

    Research Assistant to the Jean Monnet Chair of the University of Macedonia: Contributed to the creation of Nedeus Glossary,a collection of wikis familiarizing European citizens with EU legal terminology (2013-2014)

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    Co-organized by Harvard law school and the European University Institute

    The overall framework for the course is the Logocratic Method, a systematic method for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of arguments, including, but not limited to, legal arguments

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    DAAD scholar

    Focus:Climate change negotiations, Climate economics, International environmental law, Planning law in energy transition, public procurement

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    Focus:IP law, trademarks, copyright, patents, e-commerce

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • German Marshall Fund of the United States Graphic

    Young Professional Fellow

    German Marshall Fund of the United States

    - 1 month

    Politics

    Selected as part of a cohort of next generation leaders to discuss pressing policy challenges for the transatlantic community in the context of the Brussels Forum.

  • Salzburg Global Seminar Graphic

    Mentor

    Salzburg Global Seminar

    - Present 2 months

    Mentor for the Young Voices in Public Policy initiative

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    Member

    Global Shapers Community

    - Present 7 years 5 months

    Τhe Global Shapers Community is a network of Hubs developed and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities-an Initiative of the World Economic Forum.

    https://www.globalshapers.org/hubs/athens-hub

  • The Fifty-Fifty Project Graphic

    Co-Founder

    The Fifty-Fifty Project

    - Present 7 years 5 months

    Economic Empowerment

  • Clinton Global Initiative Graphic

    Fellow

    Clinton Global Initiative

    - 1 month

    Education

    Renovation of a public school in Oakland,CA

  • United Nations Human Rights Graphic

    NGO Delegate/Civil Society

    United Nations Human Rights

    - 1 month

    Human Rights

    ELSA as the world's biggest law students organization has gained over the years observership status in a lot of UN organs.As an ELSA delegate,I was chosen to represent the organization in the 58th session-second week of the session-for the rights of women in Georgia,South Africa and Latvia and attended a speech by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on girls’ right to education.

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    Treasurer

    ELSA

    - 3 years 9 months

    Education

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Honors & Awards

  • Greek International Women Awards-Young Star Category(Finalist)

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  • Socialists and Democrats,group of the European Parliament

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    Scholarship for attending the forum "Step it up for gender equality",selected among 1500 participants.

  • Angelopoulos-Clinton Global Initiative Fellowship

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    Seed funding and attendance at the Clinton Global Initiative University for Knit2Lead,as one of the most promising social enterprises in Greece.

  • DAAD scholarship

    DAAD,University of Trier

  • Center for Hellenic Studies,Harvard University and the International Olympic Academy

    Harvard University

  • Prix de la Francophonie

    Reseau de la Francophonie

    Awarded as the best non French speaking team in the French speaking moot court "Charles Rousseau"(www.rfdi.net)

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • French

    Full professional proficiency

  • Spanish

    Professional working proficiency

  • Greek

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Chinese

    Elementary proficiency

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