Lina Liakou

Regional Director for Europe and the Middle East, 100 Resilient Cities pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Lina Liakou is Regional Director for Europe and the Middle East overseeing the “100 Resilient Cities” partnership with the 21 cities across Europe and the Middle East in developing their resilience thinking through long term City Resilience Strategies and actionable initiatives.

Before joining 100RC, Lina was Deputy Mayor and Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Thessaloniki, Greece. In this role, she led the development of the city’s Resilience Strategy in 2017. As a Deputy Mayor, Lina Liakou initiated collaborations with the European Commission, the EIB and the World Bank. Prior to this, Lina was chairman and managing director of the Metropolitan Development Agency of Thessaloniki, an intermunicipal company that coordinates national and international research projects.

Lina Liakou is an architect and urban designer from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London and a Marshall Memorial Fellow (2015) of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.