Vassiliki Grammatikogianni was born in 1965 in Athens. She studied journalism and economics. Her career as a journalist started in 1987 with the magazine ‘Agrotikos Synergatismos’ (Farmer Cooperatism) of PASEGES (Panhellenic Confederation of Associations of Agricultural Cooperatives). Since then she has worked with many magazines, newspapers and websites. In the 1990s (the era of large mergers and acquisitions) she was involved in business. Several parallel professional circles closed in 2009 with her ‘coming of age’ after the death of her father. Then she decided to turn her concerns for the environment into a profession and in 2010 she set up the column ‘ECOVOICE’ in ‘Athens Voice’.
In 2016 she launches the website europepolis.com with environmental and European issues.
Today, she also collaborates with the weekend edition of the newspaper ‘Efimerida ton Syntakton’.
She collaborated with the Cultural Department of the Goethe Institute and covered European-wide cultural projects of the Institute, concerning the transformation of society through art. On the same topic she attended a relevant project of the Ministry of Culture of Rhineland-Westphalia (the region of Germany where the main economic activity was based on coal mining and was the first region in Europe to make the transition) and has since participated as a graduate student in the International Network of the project https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/alumni.
She has attended many environmental seminars, including on the cooperation of Mediterranean countries at the National Kapodistrian University, on food waste at the Harokopeio University and many others.
She participates in the annual journalism seminar organised by the European Economic and Social Committee and has been a founding member of the Greek section of the Association of European Journalists.
She is the only Greek environmental journalist invited by the UN to the 2015 UN Summit, where the 17 global Sustainable Development Goals were presented, and it was the Summit that laid the groundwork for the Paris Agreement in December of the same year.
She follows and covers the global climate meetings known as the COPs.
For her journalistic work in the environment she has been awarded two journalism prizes. In 2014 the ‘Oikopolis’ award, nominated by the readership, and in 2016 the award of the Hellenic Society for Environment and Culture (ELLET) for her contribution to the preservation of the environment and the cultural heritage of Greece.