She began her life with an unbearable burden, a bereavement that plunged her entire family into grief. She lost her brother in a car accident at the age of 8. “In a grieving home, you have two options to ‘protect’ the pain and move forward. Either you become the soul of the group, or you remain silent. I chose the second. I remember my older sister reading in her room and I playing alone in mine. Later in the jobs I went through, many called me the silent partner. This is how I deal with difficult things. I withdraw into myself, concentrate, draw strength from this and move on. says Joanna Litrivi “K”.woman chosen Kyriakos Mitsotakis in fourth and therefore eligible place in the state vote N.D. in the next national elections.

“In you, I see a young, hardworking scientist who believes in the part of professional training that will be one of our priorities for the next four years. I don’t want celebrities on the ballot,” the prime minister told her when he announced his decision to be on the state ballot.

He was born in 1982 in Tripoli, his father was an Air Force officer and his mother a housewife. That is, he belongs to the “sit still, Gerasim” generation. This was a group of high school students who in 2000 took the all-Greek exams according to the system of the then Minister of Education Gerasimos Arsenis: exams in both the 2nd and 3rd secondary schools – a total of 14 school subjects.

Of course, she was probably serviced by the Arsenis system. “I really liked mathematics, physics, chemistry, but I did not understand what I wanted to study. In the end, I said to declare a subject that I like, and chose… Philology because of my love of linguistics. Dad was disappointed because he wanted me to choose Athens Law School,” he recalls now. In 2000, he was admitted to the philological faculty of the Athens School of Philosophy.

“Yes, I also went through the student faction, DAP-NDFC. I believe that factions can act as a nursery of ideas, a feedback channel for the central political scene with fresh ideas from young people, non-standard ideas. At the same time, they can be a means of networking and communication in real life, and not in the virtual reality of social networks and chats. At a time when young people lack representation, there is a need to increase public participation by moving away from extreme hate speech, labels, ingrained beliefs, ideologies and dogmas.

Ideologies give orientation, impetus and vision, they should not bind us and ultimately immobilize us,” she says, and my incredulous look at what she advocates makes her laugh. “I stayed for a semester. I did not continue because it was very difficult for me to combine my studies with work and participation in DAP. I ran right after school, worked at a tutoring center during the day,” he explains. During his student years as part of Erasmus, he spent a semester at the University of Salzburg, Austria, where he prepared a thesis on the comparative syntax of German and Greek.

But while tutoring was his main livelihood, the next step indicated which direction he would take. His master’s subject was political science at the University of Crete, while he went on to work on a doctorate in education and training policy. “Politics” begins to recur more and more often in the life of Joanna Litrivi. In parallel with her doctoral dissertation, she worked as a manager in an adult education center. “The policy of lifelong learning is my passion. This is a very important part because you are helping disadvantaged people – the unemployed, the unskilled – get back on their feet.

I’m touched by it” says “K”. “Professional training is the most dynamic and constantly developing subsystem of education and employment policy and concerns the entire production process – workers, specialists, enterprises, the unemployed. This is a response to messages from businesses “I can’t find the right staff”, employees “the tasks I am offered and perform are below my qualifications”, and vulnerable groups about inequality in access to the labor force. market. By using vocational training as a tool, we can do our part to reduce inequality.”

He was born in 1982 and belongs to the “sit down, Gerasim” generation. Her love of linguistics led her to philology. “The Pope was disappointed because he wanted me to choose Athenian Law.”

What I think describes Ioannou Litrivi is her phrase at a moment of conversation that seemed convenient. “I worked from the age of 18, not that the family was in great need – we were, of course, not rich. But that’s how I feel independent. At work, I probably feel independent and strong.” From all the positions she has gone through, everyone recognizes her hard work. During one quarter of 2011 (August-November, Prime Minister – Georges Papandreou) worked as scientific adviser to government representative Ilias Mosialu. The meeting was moderated by her MA and Prof. Nikos Papadakis, manager of the Mosialos office. “They need a commando, and that’s you. I know how you work,” Papadakis told her.

The fall of the government at that time was followed by a scientific adviser position next to the Secretary General of Media, the late Dimitris Stefanou, and a similar position in the Ministry of Administrative Reform and E-Government under Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Antonis Manitakis, during the first memorandum period (30.07.2012 to 25.01.2015) . Coordinating and monitoring OECD recommendations to reduce bureaucracy in 13 sectors of the Greek economy was a project undertaken by Ioanna Litrivi, and government officials believe her success caused Mitsotakis to single her out.

After the elections in January 2015 and the victory of SYRIZA, her experience in fighting bureaucracy opened the way for her to cooperate with Niki Kerameos, then head of the administrative reform department, and then N.D.

Four years later, in 2019, Kyriakos Mitsotakis called her and told her to run for Arcadia. “But President, I don’t know the party, I know the technocratic part,” she told him. “The world needs the ideals and style that you wear. Dive deep.” describes today in “K” Prime Minister’s response. She placed third, although inexperienced and unknown. After the victory of N.D. in the July 2019 elections, Education Minister Niki Kerameos included her in his inner circle of staff and then placed her in charge of the long-suffering National Organization for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance. He completed a difficult task, although he had a health problem, fortunately curable.

As he emphatically says, “The fight was big. I said that if I can do this, I can do a lot. I closed in on myself, gained strength and moved on. I’m fine now. And I never thought “why me?”