Elina Kountouri

Elina Kountouri is the Director of NEON Organization for Culture and Development founded by contemporary art collector and entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos.

She is responsible for the strategic development, artistic program and management of all initiatives related to public space, exhibitions, education, grants and outreach. She has worked as a corporate affairs and strategy consultant, with a focus on contemporary culture policy and business development. Her areas of expertise include issues management analysis, strategy and crisis communications, policy and planning development, and management of international large-scale projects for multinational companies and NGOs. 

She has organized and curated more than 40 site-specific exhibitions in the public space, creating a public-private model of collaboration activating heritage sites in Greece. Exhibitions include Adrián Villar Rojas, The Theater of Disappearance, at the National Observatory of Athens (2017); Antony Gormley, SIGHT on the archaeological island of Delos (2019); group exhibition Portals (2021) at the former Public Tobacco Factory in Athens where she initiated and oversaw its renovation in partnership with the Hellenic Parliament. Most recently she is co-curating and organizing the exhibition trilogy Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures (2025-2026) at the Acropolis Museum and the old museum on Acropolis Hill in partnership with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. 

She holds an LL.B. from Queen Mary & Westfield College. She was a graduate student at U.C.L. and L.S.E., where she received an LL.M in International Maritime Law and an M.Sc. in Political Theory. She lives and works in Athens. 

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