Evgenia Chamilou is a holder of an undergraduate degree in LLB Law from the University of Warwick (2017-2020) and a postgraduate degree in LLM with specialism in Public International Law from The London School of Economics and Political Science (2020-2021). She is an accredited Lawyer in the Republic of Cyprus and completed the Cyprus Bar in 2023.
She has worked for the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, the International Law Department at the Law Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Cyprus and the House of Representatives. As of May 2024, she will be joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, as a Diplomatic Attaché.
Currently, she is the President of the Cyprus Youth DiplomaCY NGO, a together.eu official partner, and one of the organisers of the House of Youth Representatives. As the founder of LCOY Cyprus, an intercommunal initiative under YOUNGO, the youth and children constituency to UNFCCC, referred in the UN Secretary-General’s reports on Cyprus, she is particularly active in the fields of youth participation, environmental peacebuilding and climate diplomacy and is an advocate for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 13, 16 and 17.
She has served as the Delegate of Cyprus at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe in 2020 and 2021, a UN Youth Champion for Environment and Peace, as well as Cyprus’ Youth Delegate to Youth4Climate 2021: Driving Ambition and the pre-COP26 Summits in Milan and the 2022 Youth4Climate Summit: Powering Action in New York held on the margins of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly. From being a co-facilitator of the youth theme driving the ambition at the multilateral level of the Youth4Climate Manifesto in 2021, she coordinated a deepening session with former Italian Climate Envoy Ambassador Alessandro Modiano on engaging non-state actors in climate action in 2022. She met with individuals like His Holiness The Pope, the Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Special Envoy on Cyprus Ms. Holguín and others.