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Katie Economidou Was born in 1959 in Nicosia, Cyprus, where she completed her primary and high school education. She graduated from the Greek Lyceum with Excellent marks.

In 1977 she was awarded a scholarship by the Fulbright Program in Cyprus for studies at the American University of Beirut, from where she graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and Philosophy.

Since her return to Cyprus she has been working at the Cyprus Tourism Organization at the Administration Dept, in charge of the Board of Directors’ Secretariat, Human Resource Development and Training, Crisis Management, coordination and implementation of Quality Management Models for which CTO was awarded twice the EFQM prize, Corporate Social Responsibility and Tour Guiding, and occasionally at the Press Office. She was the editor of the official CTO magazine “Love Cyprus» and “Cyprus in your Heart”.

In 1992-1993 she was awarded a scholarship for postgraduate studies in the US, in the area of Conflict Management and Human Resource Development at the Harvard Extension School.

In 1999 she was awarded a Chevening scholarship by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and pursued studies at the London Center for International Relations (University of Kent), from where she graduated with a Master of Arts in International Conflict Analysis (and a dissertation on the Cyprus problem), with Merit.

Since 1994 till the present she has been actively involved in the Citizens Bicommunal Peace Building Process in Cyprus as a trainer in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, and a facilitator of Bicommunal groups of Turkish and Greek Cypriot citizens, women, professionals, youth, artists, and as a Peace activist, locally and internationally.

She had initiated a number of groups: the Citizens Action Group for Peace in Cyprus, the Bicommunal Choir, Hands Across the Divide (Women’s group), and she is a co-founder of the Mediators’ Center and the NGO Resource Center in Nicosia and Women Waging Peace (USA). She collaborated successfully with the UN, the Fulbright Commission and representatives of foreign missions in Cyprus.

She had trained extensively in Mediation and Conflict Resolution in Cyprus and abroad, and collaborated with organizations dealing with conflict management, the CMG in Cambridge Mass, The Women Waging Peace Movement USA, the School for International Training in Vermont USA, where she facilitated bicommunal youth camps, the Peace Village in Jerusalem and the World Council of Churches. She has been an active member of the Peace Center Cyprus, through which she participated in a number of conferences as a keynote speaker worldwide, and trainings on conflict and peace in Europe, (UK, Belgium, Ireland, France, Germany), Turkey, Israel, Palestine, China, and the US.

In 2013 and 2015, together with her Turkish Cypriot associate, they were awarded the Sir Stelios Award for the Mediation Consultancy Initiative and their Guided Tours allover Cyprus.

Her idea for a project on Empowering Women’s small businesses island wide, (women who do business at home) in 2017, earned the Stelios Award for the 3d time.

She earned it for the 4th time for Raising the Bicommunal Kid.

Besides Greek and English, she has a good working knowledge of French and  Italian, and a basic knowledge of Turkish and Arabic. She has also studied Russian and Hebrew.

In June 2006 she graduated with distinction from the Tourist Guides’ School organized by CTO and run by the University of Cyprus; she guides in Greek, English, Italian and French.

She is a classical singer and holds a Diploma in Recital Performance with Merit from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama UK, and Higher Music Studies from the National Conservatory of Music, (Ethnikon Odeion) of Cyprus. She performs widely in Cyprus and abroad for charity and bicommunal events. With the Music Trio of Turkish and Greek Cypriot musicians, they have been performing all over Cyprus since 2013. In 2015 she was awarded the US Ambassador’s Award for Cultural Diplomacy.

Her Peace Activism was a deliberate decision after her husband’s loss of his family during Turkey’s military intervention in 1974. Their home was the place of the intervention.

She is married and a mother of two daughters.