Maria Papaioannou

Maria has been working as Head of Arts and Arts Consultant for the British Council since 2012. She has implemented a number of international art projects such as the International Creative Writing Summer School, Tri - Culture Shift: Technology meets Art with Google (Athens, Madrid, Nicosia), Transforming Future Museums and Co-Museum conference. She has been leading in the development of an EU museum programme for the British Council - Museums Revisited – as well as co-developing the EU Circular Cultures programme and contributing to the EU arts strategy of the organisation. After spending 7 years in the UK, she returned to Greece in 2010 and worked as Independent Curator and Arts and Culture Consultant for CultureOut. She holds a BA in History (Ionian University) and an MA in Museum Studies: Culture, Collections and Communication (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton).