
Dr. Margarita Alexomanolaki was born in Athens Greece. She has studied piano at the Hellenic Conservatoire (1996) and Musicology at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (1998). She earned her Mmus in Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2001) as well as her PhD in “Music and Memory in TV Advertising” (2006). In 2009 she succeeded at the exams for the National School for Public Administration in Athens, from where she was appointed to the Ministry of Culture. She has been Head of the Directorate of Preforming Arts and Cinema since 2018. She is married and mother of one child.