Number of Greeks studying in UK rising, says British Council head

The British Council has been active in Greece since 1939 and in those 80 years "our vision and goals have not changed," says Anastasia Andritsou in her first interview as director of the institution.

A graduate of the National Technical University of Athens, with postgraduate studies in France as well as Greece and a solid career trajectory as a business executive, she has worked at the British Council since 2004. The former supervisor of the Council's Communication of Science program became its first female and first Greek director on April 1.
 

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