Katerina Sarri is an Economist, Professor of Business Administration-Entrepreneurship, at the University of Macedonia.

Her work focuses on the interconnection of scientific knowledge with entrepreneurship, innovation, social empowerment and in particular the cultivation of entrepreneurial culture, start-up entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems with a particular emphasis on preparing and strengthening the participation of young people and women in the economy and the labor market.

She is the founder of the Entrepreneurship Laboratory at the University of Macedonia, which she directs, Concept Founder of the Social Innovation Hackathon and conferences on the Pedagogy of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Member of the National Council for Research, Technology & Innovation of the Ministry of Development, Member of the Scientific Committee on Workforce Skills of the Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs, Member of the Board of Directors of the Business Administration Society of Northern Greece (EDEBE) and President of the Equality Institute, Member of the Committee on Technology Transfer, Innovation and New Entrepreneurship of the University of Macedonia, President of the Committee on Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination of the University of Macedonia.

She is the scientific manager and coordinator for our country of the GUESSS program for youth entrepreneurship, coordinator of the Thematic Unit “Entrepreneurship & Innovation Theory” for the Hellenic Open University (HOU), she was an entrepreneur, she has worked as a Business Consultant and a member of the Board of Directors of the Ergani Center for Women and Youth Entrepreneurship. At the same time, she has served as a member of the National Council for Gender Equality of the General Secretariat for Demographic and Family Policy and Gender Equality, a member of the Scientific Committee for Combating Violence against Women of the General Secretariat for Gender Equality, & a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Inter-Balkan Cooperation of Women – UNESCO Center.

For more than 30 years she has been teaching in Greek and foreign higher education institutions at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels, as well as in Private and Public Law Legal Entities. She is an Evaluator of Programs and Educational Institutions abroad, Scientific Director of National and European Research Programs, Reviewer & Editor of International Scientific Journals with a large number of citations in her published research work.
She has authored or co-authored 7 books-university textbooks in more than 40 university departments.