Speakers

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  Stamatios Krimigis Emeritus Head of the Space Exploration Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
  

  Stamatios Krimigis

  Emeritus Head of the Space Exploration Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)

  Dr. Stamatios (Tom) Krimigis is Emeritus Head of the Space Exploration Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), President of the Academy of Athens (2024) where he occupies the Chair of Science of Space and Applications, has built instruments that have flown to all 9 classical planets beginning with Mariner 4 to Mars in 1965 and ending with New Horizons to Pluto in 2015; also the Moon, the asteroid Eros, and the Parker Solar Probe to the Sun in 2018, and is Principal Investigator on NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 Interstellar Mission to the outer planets and the Galaxy. In 1999 the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 1979 UH as 8323 Krimigis. Among his recent awards are the Smithsonian Institutions’ National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Lifetime Achievement (2015), the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (2016), and the Theodore von Karman Award (2017) of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is a member of Academia Europaea, and was honored by a special resolution of the U. S. Senate “for exceptional contributions to space science” (2018). A short video on his career produced by the Smithsonian can be found at
  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvqtPPy6bQg)

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  Alexandra Mitsotaki Co-founder & Executive President, World Human Forum
  

  Alexandra Mitsotaki

  Co-founder & Executive President, World Human Forum

  Alexandra Mitsotaki is co-founder & executive president of the World Human Forum, a global citizen initiative which has its symbolic base in Delphi, launching international initiatives from important sites such as Delos, Aristotle’s Lyceum in Athens and Eleusis. In 1998 she founded ActionAid Hellas, the Greek affiliate of ActionAid, the international organisation against poverty and injustice. For the last 10 years she was in charge of the Hellenic Cultural Centre in Paris of which she is now vice-chair. Reacting to the financial crisis in Greece, in 2014 she co-founded Action Finance Initiative, the first microcredit organisation in Greece.
  She has been a member since its inception, of the High Level Roundtable of the New European Bauhaus, an initiative of the European Commission aiming to connect the European Green Deal to our living spaces. Her interdisciplinary experience over the past years has made her a profound supporter of the importance of a holistic approach to tackle the big challenges of our time.