Christiana Panayidou

Christiana is a Partner at EY’s Assurance Services in Greece. She has over 20 years of broad and comprehensive experience leading audit teams serving large multinational corporations, including in the oil and gas, real estate, retail and telecommunications sectors.

Christiana also serves as EY’s Corporate Reporting Leader for Greece and the Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe & Central Asia (CESA) region. In this role, she helps drive consistency in the application of IFRS across the 31 countries within the region. Additionally, she is a member of EY’s Global IFRS Policy Committee, contributing with her extensive knowledge of IFRS matters and long experience as a client-handling Audit Partner and IFRS advisor.

She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), a Greek Certified Auditor Accountant, and a Certified Public Accountant in Cyprus, while also holding a similar certification in Romania.

Christiana holds a degree in Accounting and Financial Analysis from the University of Warwick, in the United Kingdom.

How is Christiana building a better working world?

"I promote diversity within my teams and aim to drive everyone to reach their full potential. I lead purposefully and try to create conditions for others to do the same. Sharing knowledge is an important part of my role, in an environment where we all need to learn something new every day.

I commit to enable women to find their way within organizations, to encourage their enthusiasm and fresh perspectives, to have a voice and to feel that they belong!

In my engagement with clients, regulators and standard setters, I take interest in the corporate reporting dialogue, and the role of both financial and non-financial information to better communicate the Long-Term-Value of businesses, thereby enabling the effective operation of capital markets."