After a career in the private sector, Olga moved to live permanently in Andros in 2004 when she started her PhD in Sustainable Tourism. Olga is the inspirational driving force behind the Andros Routes project, leading a volunteer team to restore over 180km of ancient footpaths and helping to develop sustainable hiking tourism on Andros. In October 2018 she launched the successful multi-day “On Foot” Hiking Festival which was repeated again in 2019.  She has participated in the Southern Aegean Tourism Observatory as a writer of the action plan for nature and hiking tourism.
Olga has a degree in Economics from the University of Athens, a postgraduate degree in Tourism Management and Policy from the Hellenic Open University, and a PhD in Sustainable Tourism.