Alexia Bakoyannis has been active for more than 20 years in Strategic Corporate Communications, having held various positions in Greek and multinational Groups. In 2004 she founded aea relate, one of the top communication agencies in Greece. She is a French Foreign Trade Advisor (CCE) and has worked as a correspondent at Ethnos and Imerisia newspapers in Paris. She studied Journalism and Communication at CELSA Sorbonne Université (Paris), International relations at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Corporate Communication at Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). She is fluent in Greek, German, English and French and has three children, George, Dora and Stathis.