Cleopatra Kitti is a certified independent director with 30 years’ experience as a trusted advisor to corporations, governments and international organisations across EMEA, the US and the UK.
She serves on the boards of businesses with regional and international portfolios as a non-executive director and is a board member of Eurobank Cyprus, a systemically important European bank, where she chairs its Nominations and Internal Governance Committee. She previously served on the boards of Louis PLC, a Mediterranean hospitality group, and FxPro, a global trading platform.
As an advisor, Cleopatra has a particular focus on the energy and financial services sectors. She guides corporations including US and regional energy companies on issues of strategy, governance, sustainability and geoeconomic risk, and has a proven track record in opening up new markets to her clients.
Cleopatra also serves as a senior policy advisor at ELIAMEP, Greece’s leading European think tank, where she co-founded its Mediterranean programme. She is a member of the International Crisis Group’s international advisory council, serving as a philanthropist for peace, having volunteered in conflict zones across Africa.
Cleopatra has a history of launching impactful multi-stakeholder programmes. She is the founder of the Mediterranean Growth Initiative (MGI), the only data analysis and forecasting platform for investors and policymakers in the Mediterranean, and of Queens of Money, a UN-funded financial education programme for women in the Mediterranean.
She formerly held corporate executive roles at APCO Worldwide and FTI Consulting, where she oversaw growth across southern Europe and in the Gulf region, building the portfolios of public- and private-sector clients.
Cleopatra Kitti at the Frontline Club, London.
Through her experience operating across cultures and regulatory regimes, Cleopatra has gained a trusted international network and detailed knowledge of the intersection of business and policy/regulation across regions. She is a skilled communicator, with a record of advising governments and corporations on strategic communication strategies.
As an INSEAD-certified independent director, Cleopatra has a technical understanding of how the best boards should function, complementing her professional experience. Her non-executive position with a highly regulated Eurozone bank, having served as a member of its risk and audit committees, furnishes her with an insight into sustainable business operations that can be applied to other industries.
She has extensive experience in data analysis, and draws on the real-time data, benchmarking and forecasting tools developed by the MGI to inform her decision-making. Cleopatra brings both rigorous financial analysis and an understanding of sustainability and geopolitical risk to her non-executive roles. Using this unique perspective, she is not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom.
Cleopatra is a decisive and empathetic leader, and, as an experienced board committee chair, understands the importance of convening views and facilitating discussion. She is committed to the organisations she represents, and has dedicated herself to social and governance issues, including conflict resolution and women’s financial equality, throughout her career.
A Cypriot national, Cleopatra speaks Greek and English, as well as basic French and Turkish.