Dr. Aliki Mitsakos, M.D., Ph.D.,
President, Women In International Security - Hellas (WIIS-Hellas), Secretary General, Greek Association for Atlantic & European Cooperation

Aliki Mitsakos, graduated from Wakefield High school of Arlington, Va., studied Medicine in U.L.B., Belgium, U.C. San Diego, U.S.A., and the University of Athens, Greece. Specialist in Anaesthesia - Intensive Care and Pain Management, she holds a Ph.D., cum laude, in Pharmacology.

She has worked at all levels and eventually as Director of Anaesthesia and the Intensive Care Unit, keeping simultaneously a Private Practice, in Greece and abroad, including Stanford University and other Centers in the U.S.A.; England; Russia; and South Africa. She has taught at the University of Athens, the Institute of Vocational Training, and many international advanced programs.

She has been actively involved in promoting the academic and clinical aspects of the related fields of medicine and the safety of anaesthesia and anesthesiologists on the Board of the Hellenic Society of Anaesthesiologists, founded the Association that set the standards of the specialty, has served as the National Delegate at the Monospecialist Committee for Anaesthesia and Reanimation of the European Union (U.E.M.S.), on the European Board of Anaesthesiology, as well as numerous Hellenic and International Societies, including the European Academy and the European Society of Anaesthesiology.

Besides her professional career, she has also been an active member of Civil Society on issues related to International Relations, Security and Education, with a particular focus on Youth and gender issues, for the past 30 years and more. She has been active in Soroptimist International, served as President of the Union of Greece, served on the Board of Advisors of the International Institute for Political & Economic Studies of the Fund for American Studies and Georgetown University, is Ambassador for Peace of the Universal Peace Federation, and more. Founding member and Secretary General of the Greek Association for Atlantic & European Cooperation, and president of Women In International Security - Hellas.

She has also created and launched in 2004 a unique International Educational program for teenagers “Kernels of our Future”©, rebranded to “Leaders For Our Future”©, based on non-formal / informal education methods, and founded The International Center for Leading Studies (TICLS) in 2012, serving as Dean.

She has participated at over 100 major Conferences and meetings all over the world, delivered a number of addresses on her related interests, and published many articles to scientific journals and the press, including current concepts based on the experiences acquired in the learning approach and processes, as well as those of soft diplomacy.

During the last years she has been employing her background in Medicine and Civil society to research and develop non formal education methods and practical tools that can proliferate leadership for the younger generation as an investment for the future of our societies.