Managing Director PhD

Afroditi Veloudaki

Dr. Afroditi Veloudaki, Managing Director of the Prolepsis Institute, holds a PhD from the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Mass Media from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. After working in the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute (IOM) in Athens as a researcher on communication issues, she continued her education in Boston, U.S.A. Honored with a Fulbright Scholarship and a Merit Award from Emerson College, she specialized in Health Communication and obtained a MA from Emerson College and Tufts University School of Medicine. As part of her studies in the U.S.A. she worked at the renowned Children’s Hospital Boston, where she had the opportunity to work next to physicians and professors of Harvard University. She then worked at the Marketing Department of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Centre. In 2007 she returned to Greece and has been working at Prolepsis, initially as a health communication consultant and then, as the Director of the Institute. She has coordinated many of the Prolepsis initiatives and programs, by representing the Institute in both national and international conferences. Among others, she was the project manager of the European program "Health Reporting Training -HeaRT" and is the project manager of the Food Aid and Promotion of Healthy Nutrition program implemented by Prolepsis with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation as founding donor.