Amalia Konstantakopoulou

Amalia Konstantakopoulou

Co-Founder, The Tipping Point, Greece

Amalia Konstantakopoulou is the founder of The Tipping Point (www.thetippingpoint.org.gr), the largest mentoring organization in Greece for 40,000 students and 2,000 educators, even in the most underprivileged schools and learning communities in the country. The Tipping Point mission is to empower thousands of students, in areas beset with high unemployment, or isolated islands and villages, to connect with professional and academic role models out of an extended network, on a daily basis and through the use of technology, namely our web and mobile app.Through a structured Digital Dialogue, live or asynchronous, students become more conscious about their life decisions and build their academic and career plans with the help of mentors, whom would not be able to meet otherwise. She has studied Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is a postgraduate student of the National Technical University of Athens (MBA). She has worked in the fields of communication and marketing for companies and organisations such as UPS, Nestle, MTVGR, Swarovski, the Greek National Tourism Organization and ministries, as well as a Fashion Week  communications consultant, having thus collaborated with both Greek and foreign designers during the Athens, Moscow & New York Fashion Weeks.