Andreas Dracopoulos, Co-President of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Is Revolutionizing Healthcare in Greece
As co-president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, established after the death of its namesake Greek shipping tycoon 25 years ago, Andreas Dracopoulos (Niarchos’s great-nephew) manages an international organization that, since its founding, has awarded more than $3.1 billion through more than 4,900 grants to nonprofits both at home and abroad. Just a sampling of the SNF’s far-reaching impact includes: the complete overhaul of the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library, which reopened last summer; $75 million to Rockefeller University to expand its campus; $100 million for global Covid-19 relief; and a staggering $860 million to build the SNF’s cultural center in Athens, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
In recent years Dracopoulos has turned the SNF’s focus to strengthening Greece’s public healthcare system. In 2017 the organization pledged $500 million to launch the Health Initiative, which supports such projects as the construction of new state-of-the-art hospitals and the funding of education programs. Mental health is also a top priority. This April, Dracopoulos signed a $15 million, five-year partnership with the Child Mind Institute that will bring the U.S.-based nonprofit’s expertise overseas, to better serve the mental health needs of Greece’s children and youth.
This story appears in the Summer 2021 issue of Town & Country.
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