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Marina Niforos
Founder and Principal
Logos Global Advisors
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Marina Niforos is the founder of Logos Global Advisors, an advisory firm on strategy and innovation and a recognized expert, author and speaker on innovation and disruptive technologies. She is currently an advisor to the International Finance Corporation and lead author of their report Blockchain: Opportunities for Private Enterprises in Emerging Markets. She is also a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory&Forum, Policy and Framework Conditions Working Group. Additionally, Marina Ms Niforos serves on the Boards of Séché Environnement, a French publicly-listed company in circular economy and the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations, the sovereign asset and investment management fund of the Hellenic Republic, where she chairs the Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee and is a member of the Investment Committee. She is a Visiting Faculty on Leadership at HEC business school and a board member at the European Network of Women in Leadership, a non-profit promoting women’s economic empowerment. In March 2012, she was appointed Commissioner to the United States National Commission for UNESCO by the U.S. Secretary of State.
Marina has more than 25 years experience in strategy, policy and emerging technologies in the public, private and academic domains. She has served as CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in France, Executive Director for the Diversity Center of Excellence at INSEAD and held senior posts in the Pechiney Group, in corporate venturing and in corporate strategy functions. Before coming to France, Marina served five years with the World Bank Group, managing the institutional relationship with country borrowers for several Latin American countries. In 1998, she received the World Bank Award for Excellence by President Wolfensohn for assisting borrowers with sovereign debt conversion in Colombia.
Ms Niforos earned an MBA from INSEAD, a Masters in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania and a Diploma in International Relations from SAIS-The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins University). She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University, with a B.A. with highest honors in Government and International Relations. She is fluent in Spanish, French, Greek and proficient in Italian.
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