Eleni Myrivili

Activist, Brainstormer, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Foodie, Global soul, Idea generator, Performer, Policy maker, Scientist

Eleni Myrivili is s policymaker and an advocate for a nature-positive and climate-neutral agenda. Lately she’s been focusing on building urban heat resilience. She is currently a Senior Consultant for 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 as well as Chief Resilience Officer, after her election to Athens Government in 2014. Since 2021, under the new role of Chief Heat Officer - Europe's first - she is raising awareness of the dangers of extreme heat and co-creating a greener and cooler future for all. She co-chairs the Steering Committee of the global Resilient Cities Network (R-Cities) and has recently completed a year as a Loeb Fellow of Advanced Environmental Studies 2020, at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. A tenured Assistant Professor at the University of the Aegean, Greece, until 2021, Eleni Myrivili got her Ph.D. from Columbia University (N.Y., N.Y.) in Cultural Anthropology.

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Landscape Architecture should Rule built environment design

City Administration, Climate Adaption, Cutlural Theory, Green and Blue Infrastructure, Green Politics, Limits and Representation, Local Government, Multimedia Storytelling, National Borders, Participatory Governance, Performance Studies, Urban Resilience

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