Monday, May 7th, 2001 The Pierre Hotel, New York City

Mrs. Gianna Angelopoulos - Daskalaki
President Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games Athens 2004

Gianna Angelopoulos - Daskalaki was born in 1955. She studied Law at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. She actively pursued a political career; in 1986 she was elected Councillor in the Municipality of Athens. She was elected Member of Parliament in the Athens first Region Constituency for the New Democracy Party two times: in November 1989 and in April 1990.

In 1990 she resigned as a Member of Parliament after her marriage to businessman Theodore Angelopoulos. Since then she has been actively involved in the shipping business. She is a member of the Athens Bar Association. In 1994, she was named Vice - Chair of Harvard University's "John F. Kennedy School of Government". In 1996 she was appointed President of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Bid Committee. In 1998 she was appointed Ambassador at Large by the Greek State.

As of May 2000, she has been President of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games "Athens 2004"

Gianna Angelopoulos - Daskalaki has three children: two sons and a daughter.