Founder & CEOSocial Fashion Factory Cooperative
Fiori is an academic and a social entrepreneur; holds an award winning PHD on Social Enterprises, Partnerships & Scaling from Brunel Business School (BBS), UK. Is now a Post-Doctorate Researcher on Social Investment Market for Social Entrepreneurship at Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) where is Lecturing Social Entrepreneurship; MBA BBS; BSc in Ec. AUEB. Actively involved in business incubators and the start-up entrepreneurship ecosystem in Greece. Founder & CEO of SOFFA - Social Fashion Factory which provides integration into employment and entrepreneurism to victims of trafficking & refugees in the fashion industry; a creativity hub for youth unemployed providing access to machinery and production from sustainable and recyclable textiles; Co-founder of The Designers Marketplace www.loscarfashion.com whose profits are reinvested in SOFFA; Founder of the Sustainable Textiles Marketplace whose profits are reinvested in SOFFA; Co-founding Board Member of Fashion Revolution movement in Greece. Founder & President of The Nest Incubator for social enterprises, Social Growth Accelerator. She has designed The Diploma of Social Entrepreneurship at City Unity College. Founded her first company Zita Social in London in 2003. Fiori designed & leads the EU funded programme for the incubation of “Social & Sustainable Fashion Entrepreneurs” in 5 EU countries. She is now launching the incubation programmes for the development of Social Enterprises on Trafficking & Immigration; on Blue Growth Economy for populations living in Small Islands; and on the Food and Culinary sectors for provision of healthy food to schools and for culinary incubators for immigrants as micro businesses. Her research is being published in conferences, journals and books around the globe. Watch her TEDX talk 'Are you still dreaming how to be a Doer'; Watch her documentary ‘Learning from Abroad’ Follow her #soffagr #thenestgreece #fiorizita