The Academy of Athens hosts a Voyager symposium on 10 November, bringing together NASA’s current and former science leaders and Komvos Partners Stamatios Krimigis and Athena Coustenis.
Michael Haliassos presented research at CEPR on why many households stay out of the stock market. The findings show that investment decisions are shaped not only by resources and knowledge, but also by perceptions of how difficult investing is.
Michael Haliassos has been elected President of Komvos. Meet the members of the new Board of Directors, which was constituted on 2 November 2026.
Ambassador Haris Lalacos served in the Hellenic Foreign Service for 39 years and became MFA Secretary General. Since 2023, he has headed the Greek delegation in the dialogue with Türkiye on Confidence Building Measures.
Three international honours recognise the scientific contributions of Nektarios Tavernarakis, Professor at the University of Crete and founding partner of Komvos, in 2026: election to the Academy of Geroscience, the FEBS Datta Medal and an honorary doctorate from the University of Cyprus.
Danae Kyriakopoulou is an economist and Co-Head of the Bank of England’s Climate Hub. Her work examines the macroeconomic impacts of climate change and the green transition, and their implications for monetary and financial stability.
Ioanna Sitaridou, Professor at Cambridge and a Partner of Komvos, has been elected President-Elect of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Her research on Romeyka connects historical linguistics with the preservation of an endangered Greek variety.
Sophia Drossopoulou is Professor of Programming Languages at Imperial College London. Raised in Greece and educated in Germany, she has also worked at Microsoft Research and Meta.
Miltiadis Varvitsiotis is Vice President and CEO of Skaramangas Shipyard. He has worked as a shipping and business lawyer and has served as Minister of Shipping and Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs.
What connects scientific discovery and exploration with the desire to leave something behind? Angelos Chaniotis, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a Fellow of Komvos, examines the motives and contradictions of human progress.