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Impact Investing Strategies To Accelerate Positive Change
In a Forbes article, Praveen Vetrivel shares how impact investing is a powerful tool...
Libra Group’s Official Statement in Response to the Conclusion and Settlement of a Multi-Party Transaction
Libra Group’s official statement in response to the conclusion and settlement of a multi-party transaction...
Introducing Libra Philanthropies: a Global Foundation for Human Empowerment and a Sister Organization to Libra Group
Libra Philanthropies announces its launch as an independent foundation shaping the future....
Libra Group Announces Praveen Vetrivel as Chief Financial Officer
Libra Group announced the appointment of Praveen Vetrivel as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective April 25, 2023.
Libra Group Announces Richard Blaksley as Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
The global group strengthens corporate governance and controls by adding veteran oversight and compliance leader.
Dr. Gunter Dunkel Joins Libra Group’s Global Advisory Board
Dr. Gunter Dunkel has been appointed to Libra Group’s Global Advisory Board.
Libra Group Announces María Paula Correa as Chief Relationship Officer
Libra Group announced the appointment of María Paula Correa as the group’s first-ever Chief Relationship Officer. Correa will leverage her experience working in high levels of government and the non-profit sector to identify and build relationships.
Libra Group Becomes Signatory of UN Women’s Empowerment Principles Recognizing Need to Accelerate Global Equality for Women
Libra Group announced that it has become a signatory of the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles.
Libra Group’s 2022 Summer Intern Cohort
This summer, we were proud to host 20 interns from the U.S., Greece, Panama and Colombia. As part of the 2022 Summer Intern Cohort, interns were placed in varied roles and business sectors across Libra's subsidiaries.
Libra Group Names Manos Kouligkas CEO; Elevates George Logothetis to Executive Chairman
Libra Group Announces New Chief Sustainability Officer
Today Libra Group announced the appointment of Arguiró Elefteriu as the Group’s first-ever Chief Sustainability Officer. In the newly created role, Elefteriu will lead the Group’s environmental, sustainability and governance framework for Libra Group...
2022 Winter Interns
We are proud to Welcome our 2022 Winter Intern Cohort. We have 12 interns joining us in this cohort, which reflects our group’s commitment to support the next generation of global business leaders with professional development and mentorship.
Libra Group Announces new Chief Communications Officer
Libra Group announced Emily Teitelbaum as its new Chief Communications Officer, based in Washington D.C. With over 15 years of senior communications experience, she was previously with Wells Fargo, where she served as Vice President of Public Affairs Communication...
Libra Group launches Global Advisory Board
Libra Group has appointed the first four members of its new Global Advisory Board to support its Executive Team and Board of Directors. The newly appointed advisors will provide strategic guidance...
Concordia publishes 2021 Annual Summit Report
Concordia has published its 2021 Annual Summit Report. The multimedia document videos, commentary and analysis from the New York City event held over four days at the end of September as UN Week got underway...
Seleni has trained over 4,000 mental health professionals worldwide
Seleni Institute has now trained over 4,000 mental health professionals around the world. This extensive milestone takes in 35 countries across six continents, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Greece and the UK...
Scholarship to honour the memory of Achim Boehme, late CEO of Lomar
A new scholarship to support young people pursuing careers in shipping has been established in Germany in honour of Achim Boehme, the late CEO of Lomar Shipping...
The Concordia 2021 Leadership Award recipients are announced
The Concordia Leadership Council has announced the three recipients of the 2021 Leadership Award: Laura Bush, Former First Lady of the United States; Niels B. Christiansen, CEO of the LEGO Group; and, Mónica Ramírez...
Envolve announces 8th Greece Award Winners
Envolve Entrepreneurship announced the three winners of the 8th Envolve Award Greece, a contest for start-up and early-stage businesses in Greece. The winners’ announcement took...
Concordia announces the 2021 Lexington Summit
Concordia is proud to host its first-ever US-focused summit, taking place on November 16-18 in both a digital and in-person capacity. The Concordia Lexington Summit will convene a variety of voices across the political...
President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper celebrates seven years
The My Brother's Keeper initiative was established seven years ago by President Barack Obama to address 'persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color and to ensure all youth can reach their full potential'...
“We need to convene for the issues that matter” – Matthew Swift, Chairman & CEO, Concordia
Matthew Swift of Concordia writes about how he has spent much of his career 'devising how people can convene in-person to discuss the most critical issues facing the world. All changed in 2020...'
Libra’s Winter 2021 interns get down to business
Libra's Winter 2021 interns have arrived in the business and immediately started work with a virtual orientation week. The schedule gave them an overview of Libra Group, its history and...
Envolve launches first Panhellenic Student Entrepreneurship Competition
Envolve, has established the first business innovation competition for young people in Greece, open to high school students and endorsed by the Ministry...
Applications for the 8th Envolve Award Greece open
Envolve Entrepreneurship has announced the launch of the 8th Envolve Award Greece business start-up competition, inviting entrepreneurs and businesses around Greece to submit...
Fifth Concordia Americas Summit takes place online
The fifth Concordia Americas Summit has taken place this week, this time completely online and involving hundreds of international participants via digital platforms...
LCI appoints new CEO, Jaspal Jandu
LCI, a leading helicopter lessor, announces the promotion of Jaspal Jandu to Chief Executive Officer. Former CEO, Michael Platt becomes Vice Chairman, and Praveen Vetrivel is appointed Chief Financial Officer...
Concordia 2020 – 10th Anniversary Summit Report
Concordia has released its 2020 Annual Summit. The event this year – the 10th-anniversary summit – took place digitally over five days, convening current and former heads of state, senior government officials...
Nicholas Georgiou Promoted to Lomar Chief Executive Officer
Libra Group today confirms the promotion of Nicholas Georgiou to Chief Executive Officer of its ship owning and management business, Lomar Shipping. Mr Georgiou, 47, has been the company's...
7th Envolve Award Greece Winners announced
At a ceremony streamed live to followers around the world, the 7th Envolve Award winners were announced in Athens. Four were chosen from a pool of 10 finalists with the public vote naming an additional 3 winners...
7th Envolve Award Greece Finalists announced
Envolve Entrepreneurship has announced the 10 finalists of the 7th Envolve Award Greece who are in line to receive interest-free funding, mentorship and business support services...
Concordia announces its 2020 Advisor Program
Concordia has announced the appointment of 39 Advisors and 11 Senior Advisors to its community for the 2020 term. This impressive group of individuals from across a multitude of sectors...
Celebrating Seleni on World Maternal Mental Health Day 2020
On World Maternal Mental Health Day, Libra Group celebrates Seleni: a centre of excellence on matters of maternal mental health, helping to strengthen families and support mothers...
COVID-19: Libra gets its interns home and gets them virtual working
Quinn Smeaton, Program Manager for Libra Group Social Responsibility, writes about how the Winter 2020 Internship cohort was mobilized at the beginning of the COVID crisis for safe return to home cities and the...
Adapt, adjust, overcome: how Public-Private Partnerships are leading the battle against COVID-19
Sylvia Gampritsou, Concordia Partnership Development Intern, looks at how PPPs are helping to tackle the COVID-19 crisis in the United States and beyond through convergent initiatives and understanding on how to contain the pandemic...
Accommodating a changed world
People Operations Manager at Libra Group, Angeliki Kollia, looks at the impact of Covid-19 on the global workforce and various measures taken to support employees and maintain business continuity...
Envolve hosts entrepreneurship event on Washington’s Capitol Hill
Earlier this month, Envolve Entrepreneurship hosted an event on Capitol Hill in Washington DC focusing on entrepreneurship and small business policy...
Envolve USA 2019 Winners Announced
Envolve Entrepreneurship, in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2019, announces the winners of the third cycle of its entrepreneurship competition, the Envolve Award USA, which...
Concordia releases its 2019 Annual Summit Report
Concordia has released its 2019 Annual Summit Report. The event, held on September 22-24 in New York City, was the ninth Concordia Annual Summit and convened over 3,200 leaders, changemakers...
Nitzia Logothetis interviewed by maternal fashion and lifestyle brand Teat & Cosset
Seleni Founder, Executive Director and Psychotherapist Nitzia Logothetis has been interviewed by fashion and lifestyle brand Teat & Cosset and the two organizations begin a new partnership which...
2019 Concordia Europe–AmChamSpain Summit Report
The inaugural Concordia Europe–AmChamSpain Summit took place in Madrid, Spain on June 26, 2019. Through a unique partnership between Concordia and the American Chamber of Commerce in Spain...
The 2019 Concordia Americas Summit Report
Concordia has published the 2019 Americas Summit Report, following the event in Colombia’s culturally-rich capital, Bogotá which gathered political leaders, business innovators, global NGOs...
Envolve, the global entrepreneurship support organization, invites startup businesses in Greece to participate in the 7th Envolve Award Greece
Following the successful completion of six award cycles, Envolve Entrepreneurship today announces the launch of its Envolve Award Greece 2019 cycle, and is inviting startup teams and businesses to submit their applications for the award...
The City of Athens and The HOME Project signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the benefit of unaccompanied refugee children
The City of Athens and the non-profit organization, The HOME Project, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to formalize their commitment to collaborate...
“With the correct measures, Colombia could triple its energy potential” — Rick Perry, US Secretary of Energy at Concordia in Bogotá
Envolve Entrepreneurship joins coalition of partners to announce Titan Generator
Social impact firm Generation Titans collaborates with Google, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Envolve Entrepreneurship, Common Impact, and the Soze Agency to generate resources for enterprise solutions...
The Hellenic Initiative supports The HOME Project by granting $32,400
The Hellenic Initiative stands by The HOME Project donating $32,400 and aims to reinforce its work to help the thousands of unaccompanied minors who have been registered in Greece since 2015 to find a real...
Envolve Award Greece 2018 winners announced
The winners of the 2018 Envolve Awards Greece were announced this week in Athens at a celebratory ceremony on Monday. The annual entrepreneurship competition for start-ups and early-stage businesses...
INSIGHT: Vertical Integration in fuel and power generation industry
Vertical integration for Libra’s renewable fuels and power generation, Convergen Energy, has become a daily reality since its acquisition of the L’Anse Warden Electric Company (LWEC) power plant in late 2016...
Envolve Award Greece 2018 Finalists Announced
Envolve Entrepreneurship has announced the 15 finalists of Envolve Award Greece 2018 (formerly the Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award) who are competing for interest-free start-up funding, mentorship and...
The HOME Project announces grant from the IKEA Foundation
The HOME Project, an international humanitarian non-profit organization which was founded in December 2016 and provides safety for refugee and migrant...
Envolve Award USA: Applications for up to $25k in startup funding extended an Additional Month Through October
Following the great response to its new locations, Envolve Entrepreneurship has announced an extension to the application deadline for the 2018 Envolve Award from September 2018 to October...
Libra Interns at Concordia Americas Summit 2018
In July, a number of our Libra interns had the opportunity to travel to Bogotá, Colombia, as part of the official delegation for the 2018 Concordia Americas Summit. Here they reflect on the experience, including...
Greek celebrity Nasos Papargyropoulos speaks out on behalf of The HOME Project
Last month in Greece, media celebrity and TV personality Nasos Papargyropoulos made an impassioned plea for child migrants and refugees. Speaking at the finals of popular television show Survivor...
Envolve partners with City of Charleston Business and Neighborhood Services
The city of Charleston Business and Neighborhood Services (BNS) Division is partnering with Envolve Entrepreneurship (Envolve), a 501(c)(3) entrepreneurship organization, to provide various support services...
Envolve launches $25k entrepreneurship award across eight USA cities
Today, Envolve Entrepreneurship, a 501(c)(3) entrepreneurship organization, launches the Envolve Award USA (formerly the American Entrepreneurship Award), a regionally-focused business plan...
2018 Concordia Americas Summit Announcement
Serving as the first global platform through which to engage the incoming Presidential Administration prior to the inauguration in August, Concordia returns to Bogotá, Colombia on July 16-17 for its...
The HOME Project grants scholarships for refugee children
International non-profit organization The HOME Project, which offers shelter and work for children and young refugees in Greece, has announced a first of its kind opportunity to grant 18 full-time...
Concordia Announces 2018 Americas Initiative and Colombian Presidential Debate
In partnership with the Instituto de Ciencia Política Hernán Echavarría Olózaga, Fenalco, Noticias RCN, and NTN24, Concordia, a global nonprofit, nonpartisan convener, idea incubator, and partnership...
The HOME Project receives funding from The Shapiro Foundation
The HOME Project, the international humanitarian non-profit organization which houses and employs refugee children and youth stranded in Greece during the current crisis, has received a generous...
Envolve, a new global entrepreneurship support organization
Envolve, a new entrepreneurship organization, aims to serve as a catalyst for investment in early-stage businesses by providing entrepreneurs with easy access to capital, knowledge...