Ioanna (Anny) Podimata
Ioanna (Anny) Podimata studied at the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens, Department of French Language and Literature. In 1987, she began her journalistic career at “To Vima tis Kyriakis” and was also a founding member of the Municipality of Athens radio station “ATHINA 9.84” during the mayoralty of M. Evert. In 1989-1990, she attended the “Journalistes en Europe” school in Paris on an EEC scholarship. From 1990 to 1994, she worked in Paris as a correspondent for the first channel of Greek television (ET1), the Athens News Agency, newspapers and magazines of the Lambrakis Press Organization.
From 1994 to 2007, she worked at the Athens News Agency, the radio station “Athina 9.84”, and the newspapers “Exousia”, “To Vima”, and “To Vima tis Kyriakis”.
As the head of the diplomatic department of the newspaper “To Vima tis Kyriakis”, she was honored with the “Greek Turkish Friendship Award” (2000), which was presented to her at a special ceremony in Ankara by the then Foreign Ministers of Greece and Turkey, G. Papandreou and Ismail Cem.
From 2007 to 2014, she was a member of the European Parliament. From 2007 to 2009, she was Vice President of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) of the European Parliament. From 2009 to 2014, she was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and rapporteur of several legislative and non-legislative resolutions.
From 2011 to 2014, she served as Vice President of the European Parliament, responsible, among other things, for interparliamentary relations, the EP’s relations with international organizations, the EP Communication Campaign and the Transparency Register.
She also served as Vice President of EUFORES (European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency).
Since 2015, she has been working at Viohalco and is the Director of the European Affairs Department.