Eleni Myrivili

Eleni Myrivili is currently a Senior Consultant on Heat Resilience for the Arsht-Rock Resilience Center (Atlantic Council) and the City of Athens. She was appointed Athens Deputy Mayor for Urban Nature and Climate Resilience after being elected to City Government in 2014. She cochairs the Steering Committee of the global Resilient Cities Network (R-Cities) since she was appointed in 2015 Athens’ Chief Resilience Officer (100ResilientCities, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation). Her work on Heat has positioned Athens prominently in international urban Climate Change collaborations. A tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communications, University of the Aegean, Eleni Myrivili got her PhD from Columbia University (New York) in socio-cultural anthropology and has completed a year as a Loeb Fellow of Advanced Environmental Studies 2020, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.