ORGANISATIONS

MSF is an international, independent, humanitarian organisation providing medical care in more than 70 countries. Since 1971, it has been treating people caught in complex crises and chronic healthcare emergencies around the world.

The Greek Section of Doctors Without Borders was founded in 1990 and is one of the oldest in the movement. Since its foundation, hundreds of its members have participated in missions around the world and in Greece with the aim of providing medical care to the most vulnerable populations. The Greek Section supports the operations and humanitarian action of Doctors Without Borders internationally by attracting human resources, raising financial resources, informing and raising awareness of Greek society about their actions, developing patient protection and advocacy actions, and managing the resources they raise based on the principles of accountability and transparency.

Attending the Media Village will be:

George Mavrogonatos is the Director of Fundraising and Communication at the Greek Section of Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Mr. Mavrogonatos’ work experience comes from both the corporate sector where he has served as Marketing Executive in multinational and Greek companies, as well as the humanitarian sector, where he has worked as Fundraising and Communication Executive at MSF and ActionAid. Alongside his usual professional activities, he has been lecturing in lifelong learning institutes all courses related to Marketing and Business Administration.

He holds a BA in Business Administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business, an MSc in Marketing from the University of Leicester, while he has also attended the Master’s Program of School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Global Health – Disaster Management.

He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Action Finance Initiative (AFI).

Mitsi Persani studied Communications and Mass Media at Panteion University in Athens.

For eight years, she worked as a journalist, mainly for newspapers and magazines.

In 2002, she joined Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), where she has been working in the Communications and Fundraising department, focusing on content production.

Kyriaki Margariti studied Communication and Mass Media at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with postgraduate studies in Journalism and New Media.

She has worked as a journalist in print and online media for about 10 years.

For the last 8 years she has been working as press manager with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF Greece).