Elinda Labropoulou is an award-winning multi-platform storyteller. She is an internationally published writer, senior broadcaster and presenter with extensive reporting from global hotspots for leading media, including CNN, The Washington Post, BBC, Al Jazeera, and Deutsche Welle. Working extensively for CNN based in Greece, she has produced, directed, and presented news and analysis on the country’s financial crisis, the rise of political extremism, global migration and climate change.

Elinda is a Yale World Fellow (2021); a multilingual commentator, speaker and educator. She works with leading academic institutions, including the European University Institute (2024) and the College of Europe (2025) and is a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the Reuters Institute (2023).

A dynamic environmentalist and climate change and sustainability advocate, Elinda is the founder and CEO of Villa Rossa Area Boutique Beach Resort, an innovative, independent company in Parga, Greece, located in Epirus, one of the most untouched regions of Europe, at the heart of a multiethnic crossroads of civilisations and religions that transcend the millennia.

The company serves as a platform raising cultural and environmental awareness, moving from macro to micro and vice versa, through education and investments in innovative projects. Elinda’s passion for meaningful businessing and advancing knowledge and awareness is also at the core of Design Farm her boutique production company.

Her research and storytelling are visible in diverse projects, including Life in a Camp (2020), a pioneering CNN-Imperial War Museum immersive experience on display at the London museum, and the Washington Post’s A New Age of Walls, which won the US National Press Foundation’s Innovation Award (2017).