Athens
International Airport
BoD Members

Gerhard Schroeder holds a diploma in Economics from University of Essen, Germany. He has held various management positions, including Chairman of Airport Strategic Consultants at Sydney Airport and member of the Board of Directors of Sydney Airport. From 2007 to 2011, he held the position of deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Finance Officer at Budapest Airport. From 2011 to 2024 he was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Budapest Airport. Mr. Schroeder is the Chief Executive Officer of AviAlliance, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hamburg Airport and member of the Supervisory Board of Düsseldorf Airport.

Ioannis Paraschis is the Managing Director/Executive Director of Athens International Airport S.A. (AIA) since February 2024, the Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of the Board of Executives of AIA since May 2007. He served as the Company’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer from January 2002 to April 2007. He joined AIA following an international career in academia and management consulting with A.T. Kearney and Deloitte. Mr. Paraschis serves on several boards and councils of companies, academic institutions and trade associations in Greece and abroad, including: President of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) since June 2023, member of the Board of ACI EUROPE, which he chaired from 2007 to 2009, member of the World Governing Board of ACI (Chairman 2011 – 2013), member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research (IOBE), Chair of the Greek Council of the Sustainable Markets Initiative (Terra Carta) and a member of the Board of Directors of Marketing Greece S.A. since 2013. Mr. Paraschis was honored in October 2015 with the first “CAPA Airport Chief Executive of the Year” award. He holds a Master’s in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Paraschis is a Chartered Engineer, qualified in 1986 from the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Ian Andrews graduated with a degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University in 1986 and qualified as an English solicitor in 1989. He has been involved with the international infrastructure market for over thirty years, having been a partner of Linklaters LLP for twenty-two (22) years until April 2022 and the Sector Leader for its Infrastructure practice for the last eighteen (18) years of that period. Mr. Andrews has been a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since May 2021, as well as a director and trustee for The English Concert since July 2023 and a member of the Advisory Council of the British Museum since June 2024.

Sven Erler holds a diploma in Business from Fachhochschule Bochum, Germany and a master’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management (FOM), Essen, Germany. He is an executive director of asset management and authorized representative at AviAlliance GmbH. Mr. Erler is an authorized representative of HAP Hamburg Airport Partners Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, where he previously was a managing director until September 2021. He is also a member of the supervisory board (and in this capacity also member of its investment committee and personnel committee) of Flughafen Düsseldorf GmbH (FDG), an authorized representative of Airport Partners GmbH, and a member of the board of managers of Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC (San Juan International Airport). Mr. Erler is a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since June 2017. Since February 2024, Mr. Erler is a member of the Company’s Investment Committee and a member of the Company’s Audit Committee.

Janis Carol Kong, OBE, holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Edinburgh and has completed the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Open University in 1999. Ms. Kong held various management positions at Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited (formerly British Airports Authority or BAA) for 33 years until 2006, including, among others, executive Chairperson of Heathrow Airport (from 2001 to 2006), BAA Plc board director (from 2002 to 2006) and Chairperson of Heathrow Express (from 2005 to 2006). She has held various non-executive directorships including, most recently, at Portmeirion Group Plc (from 1999 to 2020) and TUI AG (from 2012 to 2020). Ms. Kong is a director of Copenhagen Airport since 2012 and the Chair of the Board of Directors of Bristol Airport since 2014, and she was a director of Roadis Transportation Holding SLU until June 2024. Ms Kong was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) title in 2002 for services to Transport and to Regional Development in South-East England.

Charalampos Pamboukis holds a degree of general education and of higher education from Université Paris I – Panthéon – Sorbonne, France, and a doctoral degree in Law from the Sorbonne School of Law, France. Mr. Pampoukis was a member of the Greek government, including as Minister of State to the Greek Prime Minister and as Secretary General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Greece. Mr. Pampoukis has been honored with the order of merit of “Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur” by the French government. He is a Professor of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece since 1991 and a partner at Pampoukis Maravelis Nikolaidis & Co. Law Firm since January 2004. He is also a director of the Hellenic Institute of Foreign and International Law, Greece since 2020, a member of the Board of Directors of Aktor Group of Companies since July 2022 and a member of the Board of Directors of Alter Ego Media since October 2024. Mr. Pampoukis is a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since June 2016.

Evangelos Peter Poungias holds a diploma in Economics from Universität Gesamthochschule Essen, Germany and a doctoral degree of Economics from Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany. Dr. Poungias, since 1998 with AviAlliance GmbH, was previously an executive director of airport operations and development at AviAlliance GmbH, a member of the board of directors of Budapest Airport from May 2012 to May 2017, and a member of the board of managers of Aerostar Airport Holdings, LLC (San Juan International Airport) from May 2017 to May 2020 and from July 2021 to October 2024. Dr. Poungias is an authorized representative of World Airport Partners Management GmbH since March 2014, and executive director of strategic and corporate projects at AviAlliance GmbH since October 2024. Dr. Poungias is a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since 2015 and the Chairman of the Company’s Investment and Finance Committees since February 2024.

Robert Goebbels is a journalist by profession. He was elected 5 times to the Luxembourg Parliament and three (3) times to the European Parliament. From 1984 to 1999 he was a member of the Luxembourg Government, first as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. Under his chairmanship the Schengen-treaty was signed in 1985. For ten (10) years he was Minister of the Economy, in charge also of Energy and Transportation. In the European Parliament he worked from 1999 to 2014 mainly as a coordinator for economic and monetary affairs. He was the rapporteur of the EP for the entry of Greece into the Euro. He served as chairman of the select committee on human genetics. After his political career he was a member of the board of the Luxembourg “Automobile Club S.A.” and chairman of the Luxembourg Freeport. He still serves as a Governor for Luxembourg of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in Singapore, where he is a member of the executive committee. Mr. Goebbels acts since 2018 as independent director for CEB-Bank (Europe) S.A. in Luxembourg. In June 2018 Mr. Goebbels was appointed as independent director to the Board of AIA. Reappointed independent director, after the listing of AIA, he serves as Chairperson of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee, as a member of the Audit Committee and of the Personnel committee.

Thiresia (Teresa) Farmaki holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Athens, Greece and an MBA from Columbia Business School, United States. She has over 20 years’ experience in finance and private equity investments with particular specialization on infrastructure and sustainability. From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Farmaki was an associate director at UBS Investment Bank in New York (Global Utilities and Renewable Energy group) and London (M&A group). From 2007 to 2011, she acted as Chief Investment Officer at Piraeus Equity Advisors, the private equity arm of Piraeus Bank Group, during which time she co-led the establishment of the private equity group and launched three (3) private equity and venture capital funds, among others. Ms. Farmaki was a managing director and head of private equity at Signia Wealth, a multi-family office (from 2013 to 2016) and in 2015 she cofounded Astarte Capital Partners LLP (Astarte) in London, UK, an asset management firm focused on sustainable real assets, including infrastructure, natural capital and real estate, managing capital for institutional investors globally. Since 2015 Ms. Farmaki has been the managing partner and a member of the Investment Committee at Astarte overseeing the investments. During her tenure she structured and launched, among others, a UK real estate platform focused on large urban regeneration projects in London with significant social engagement and a Latin American impact forestry fund with leading role in carbon credits and nature-based solutions and a Latin American regenerative agriculture platform with strong environmental and social impact and is a member of the Investment Committee of all. Ms. Farmaki was a speaker at COP26 and COP28 and has been awarded as top 100 women of influence by Financial News for three (3) years in row in 2022 and 2023 and 2024.

Konstantinos Kollias holds a bachelor’s degree and a PhD in Economics from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and an MBA from the University of Piraeus, Greece. He is a visiting professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics, Partner and member of the Board of Directors at a consulting firm and Business Development Consultant at a Law Firm. In February 2014 he was elected President of the Economic Chamber of Greece for the first time and in January 2024 he was reelected President for the fourth (4th) time. Mr. Kollias is a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since July 2020.

Aikaterini Savvaidou is an Associate Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Law) and a visiting professor at the University of Macedonia (Department of Economics). She has been awarded the Jean Monnet Chair in European Tax Policy and Administration by the European Commission. She is also lawyer of the Supreme Court, tax advisor and accredited mediator. Ms. Savvaidou served as the Secretary General of Public Revenue in the Greek Ministry of Finance between June 2014 and October 2015 and acted as special advisor to the Greek Deputy Minister of Finance and to the Inspectors - Controllers Body for Public Administration. Ms. Savvaidou has previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen and has taught at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Greek National School of Public Administration, the Greek National School of Judges and European Judicial Training Network. Ms. Savvaidou holds a degree in Law from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, a diploma of higher education in French Studies from Université Jean – Moulin-Lyon III, a master’s degree in Public Law from Université de Paris I – Sorbonne, and a master’s degree in Public Finance and Tax Law, a doctoral degree from Université de Paris II, Assas, a post-doctoral degree from University of Athens, Greece, and an executive certificate on “Comparative Tax Policy and Administration” at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Lorraine Scaramangas is a graduate of the University of Glasgow with a degree (MA) (in Language and Literature) and a bachelor’s degree (LLB) (Scots Law). She worked for Arthur Andersen, London, between 1979 and 1985, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1984, and for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Athens, between 1985 and 2003, becoming a partner in 1991 and head of the Financial Services group in 1998. She was a consultant and finance director at Alpha Tankers & Freighters International Ltd. (from 2005 to 2011) and chaired the audit committees of Eurobank’s subsidiary banks in Bulgaria and Serbia from 2007 to 2020. She has also acted as a Quality Assurance consultant to the Internal Audit function of Eurobank and provided ad hoc consultancy services in the shipping sector. Ms. Scaramangas was a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the audit committee of HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings S.A. between 2021 and 2024 and is currently a member of the Board of Directors and audit committee of Eurobank Private Bank Luxembourg. In 2024 Ms. Scaramangas obtained the ICAEW’s Sustainability Certificate.