Staff

Yannis Zervos, Executive Director
Yannis Zervos has been involved in education and cultural programming for over 45 years. He lectures, writes articles on Greece and has advanced degrees in economics and humanities. He has been on the board of the Fulbright Foundation, the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens, the Partisan Review, was the publisher of Omphalos magazine, and has advised the Cultural section of the American Embassy. As founder and director of the Athens Centre, he has organized over 500 cultural events in music, dance, theatre, as well as over 400 study abroad programs in Greece with American universities.

Rosemary Donnelly, Program Director
Rosemary Donnelly is the co-founder of the Athens Centre and the site director of AHA/NCSA programs in Greece. She has a BA and MA in English Literature. She has travelled extensively throughout the world, has written articles about her travels, and worked as co-editor at the Athens News, the oldest English language newspaper in Greece.

Isabella Stavroula Frangouli, Program Coordinator & Media Coordinator
Isabella was born in Athens, Greece. She has a BA in business, and an MA in communication/media from UK universities and has spent 5 years in Paris for her PhD thesis. She has worked for the United Nations and Unesco and has been running a non-profit organisation « The Small Music Theatre », an experimental concert venue in Athens for 5 years.

Katja Ehrhardt, Cultural Programs Coordinator
Katja Ehrhardt was born and raised in Germany and has an MA in Ethnology and Indology. She lived in the US, Israel, and Asia and worked in cultural management in the Goethe Institute, the German Academic Exchange, Pruess & Ochs Gallery of Fine Arts, House of World Cultures, and the Senate Chancellery Berlin. She has been working in Greece for the Athens Centre for the past 5 years.
Olympia Kappatou, Housing Coordinator & Student advisor
Olympia was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She has a degree in Sociology from Panteios University and in Theatre from Contemporary Theatre of Athens. She is presently working on her Master in Philosophy from University of Athens. Olympia has worked for National Theatre of Greece and she is a partner of Greek Hellenic Festival.