Elina Makri

Elina Makri is the General Manager of The Democracy & Culture Foundation.

Elina has worked as an independent, cross-border journalist and co-founder of media projects across Europe. Since 2014 she has worked closely with tech professionals for the creation of technological tools. Elina is the co-founder of Alpha + Omega, a data analysis platform to help math-challenged journalists and other professionals, as well as the co-founder of Oikomedia, a platform designed to help cross-border collaborations of media professionals.

Prior to joining DCF, she was a Marie Curie fellow, working in the intersection of cognitive science and journalism, researching the role of conscious and unconscious mental processing in data journalism. She has conducted data investigations about water mismanagement as well as international migration.

Elina was born in Athens, studied Law in France, International and European Law in Belgium and has been trained on Data Journalism & Computational Reporting at the Columbia Journalism School in New York.