Evgenios Evgeniou will continue to be Chairman of the Board of Directors of Invest Cyprus, while the position of Vice-Chairman has been taken over by Yangos Hadjiyannis.
It is recalled that the Council of Ministers has approved the appointment of the organisation's new Board of Directors.
Evgenios Evgeniou
Evgenios Evgeniou has been the Chairman of Invest Cyprus since June 2022, as well as being non-executive director in financial services, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nicosia for Art and member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the ICAEW. In his 31-year career at PwC , he served as Chairman and Senior Partner of PwC Cyprus (2012-2021) and as a member of PwC EMEA Leadership (2014 – 2021) representing fifteen European territories.
Beyond commercial success, key achievements included: technological transformation; developing the data analytics, cyber security, and AI capabilities; launching the PwC Experience Centre. He is n Imperial College London Engineering graduate (BEng), a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), and has completed the Harvard Direct Leadership program. In 2024 he earned zn MA in International Affairs (Strategic Studies) from King’s College London and the INSEAD Certificate in Corporate Governance.
Yangos Hadjiyannis
Yangos Hadjiyannis studied at the University of Nottingham where he earned an LL.B. with a First-Class Honours. He then moved to the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall) where he earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies and the next year, he earned an LL.M. in International Law with First Class Honours. In 2022, he completed successfully the highly exclusive Executive Education program “Authentic Leadership” at Harvard University. In July 2022, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of West Londo . From 2008 to 2019 he was the Deputy General Manager of The Cyprus Institute of Marketing, responsible for business development and strategy.
He has been CEO of CIM Cyprus Business School since 2020. As a member of the Board of Directors of Invest Cyprus he has chaired the Promotion Committee. He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director at the Cyprus Asset Management Company Ltd (KEDIPES) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation (OEB).
