Alexandra Mitsotaki is a Greek social entrepreneur. She is the cofounder and the current president of the NGO World Human Forum. Additionally, she is a former member of ActionAid Governing Board and a key figure in ActionAid Hellas as its founder and former president.
Mitsotaki is also connected to the Greek Cultural Centre (French: Centre Culturel Hellénique) in Paris, an organization she previously chaired for several years and now serves as its vice-president.
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Early life and education
Mitsotaki was born in 1956 in Athens, the second of four children of Marika (née Giannoukou; 1930–2012) and Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1918–2017), a prominent politician who served as prime minister of Greece (1990–1993). She has an older sister, the politician Dora Bakoyannis, and two younger siblings: Katerina and Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the latter currently serving as the prime minister of Greece.
Her adolescence was marked by her father’s imprisonment, and her family's house arrest and subsequent exile during the early stages of the Greek junta. She subsequently lived in Paris with her family and returned to Greece after the dictatorship's collapse and the restoration of democracy occurred. Following her graduation from the German School of Athens in 1975, Mitsotaki returned to Paris and enrolled at Sciences Po, where she earned a master's degree in political science. She also obtained a postgraduate degree in development law from the Paris Descartes University (also known as Paris V).