Maria Georgiadou

Maria Georgiadou is the Executive Director of Cyprus Seeds since 2018. Maria served as a full-time consultant with Bank of Cyprus for 4 years, in matters relating to innovation and entrepreneurship; in this capacity, she initiated and coordinated IDEA, the first accelerator-incubator program in Cyprus which supports the creation of Cypriot start-ups. Maria has over 25 years of experience with the Cyprus Development Bank working as Head of International Banking Unit, and Head of Business Development & Marketing of the CDB Group. Maria is an experienced EU project evaluator as well as a partner of the World Economic Forum in Cyprus, responsible for the production of its annual Global Competitiveness Report. Maria is a Fulbright scholar, a graduate of a BSc in Economics from the US, and holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Oxford, UK.