Vanessa Archontidou is a well-known alpinist in Greece, as she has been member of the first Greek women’s alpinist team, that climbed to the summit of Mt Everest in the spring of 2019. As part of her mountaineering and outdoor sports activity, she has traveled around the world scaling the 7 SUMMITS, the highest peaks of each of the 7 continents. Since 2021 she has been a European Climate Pact Ambassador.
Marketing and Strategic Communication is at the core of her business career. For more than 20 years she has been a high-level Marketing Executive for multinational companies and now she is a Communications and Sustainability Consultant.
Her personal development, however, has been strongly influenced by her love of nature, mountaineering and outdoor sports. Since 2004, she is a member of AOS (Athenian Mountaineering Association) and has completed the Climbing and Winter Mountaineering School. She is also a certified a Mountain Leader, leading ascents and hikes all over Greece.
Through her experiences she has developed a deep respect towards nature as well as a concern for environmental sustainability. In July 2020, she founded AWomanCanBe.org an organization that promotes women as leaders and agents of change by supporting female inclusive initiatives that address the Global Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on Climate Action, Female Entrepreneurship and Agri-food.