Elizabeth H. Filippouli is a journalist, writer, and social entrepreneur. Her early career in print and broadcast journalism in Greece and at CNN and Al Jazeera English, was prelude to now over a decade of activism and serial entrepreneurship. She is the Founder of London-based Global Thinkers Forum (GTF) an independent civil society agency incubated at the University of Oxford, founded under the patronage of Queen Rania of Jordan, and working through a global network of thought leaders to promote values-based decision leadership and support women and youth through mentoring programmes and other initiatives. 

Elizabeth has served on the Global Advisory Board of the Prince’s Trust International advising on supporting underprivileged youth through mentoring. She has studied Strategy and Innovation at Oxford’s Said Business School, Transnational Media, and Globalisation at London City University (MA) and Creative Writing at Harvard University. Her first book ‘The Invisible Reality’ was published in Greece in 2004. Her book ‘From Women to the World: Letters for a New Century’ was published by IB Tauris in July 2021. 

Elizabeth is the daughter of  journalist, author, and playwright Stamatis Filippoulis and Arts and antiques expert Eleni Filippouli. She grew up in the worlds of journalism, publishing, performing arts, surrounded by writers, poets and actors. In 2020 she co-authored with Dr Marc J. Ventresca a work on ‘Kindness in Leadership in Times of Crisis’, a publication based on international research that aspires to rethink the work of leaders. She currently works on the adaptation and production of the theatre play 'Alexander the Great-Between Dreams and Imagination' presented for the first time in the British Library in February 2023.