Emmy Markoglou brings 20+ years of experience in leading innovative communications and advocacy campaigns for the World Bank Group, top government officials, and the Olympic Games.Emmy currently leads communications in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan at IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. Previously, Emmy served as the communications advisor to the head of IFC, focusing on expanding IFC's influence through speaking, media, and online engagements and also spearheaded IFC's global communications strategies across different industries and themes such as climate and digital development. She was based in Washington, DC, and in Hanoi, where she managed IFC’s advocacy work in promoting gender equality in the private sector across East Asia and the Pacific. She was also based in Moscow, where she developed IFC’s regional communications strategy for agribusiness and coached staff and clients on best communications practices. In addition, Emmy co-founded SUSTAIN, a World Bank Group magazine featuring sustainable business solutions. Emmy had also focused on fundraising and strengthening partnerships with country donors and foundations.Emmy also led communications at the World Bank Group's energy & extractives department, which supports the world’s poorest and most fragile countries in adopting sustainable solutions to energy and extractives challenges and, at the time, had a $40 billion portfolio. Emmy advised the leadership team on communications and advocacy issues, reputational risk management, media relations, and stakeholder engagement. She also managed the team that delivered the global communications strategy for energy and extractives, including oil, gas, and mining.Prior to IFC, Emmy served as one of Greece’s youngest Ministerial advisors and managed international media relations and digital media at the Ministry of Economy & Finance. She was also a Manager at the 2004 Olympics, where she led media relations and sponsor communications, including crisis management. Her passion for development work is rooted in the year she spent in Nigeria producing a report for Foreign Affairs, the magazine of the US Council on Foreign Relations.Emmy is a Fulbright Scholar holding a B.A. in Sociology and a M.Sc. in Communications from New York University and Boston University. She has also completed the Prince of Wales' Business and Sustainability program at the University of Cambridge.
Listed skills include Strategic Communications, Press Releases, Internal Communications, Speech Writing, and 4 others.