Fotini Vaki was born in Athens and studied Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Essex in U.K. She is Associate Professor of the History of Philosophy and Head of the Department of History at the Ionian University. She is the author of the books, Progress in the Enlightenment: Faces and Facets (Athens, Eurasia, 2012) and Neoliberalism, Democracy and Rights (Athens, Eurasia, 2021). She has published papers in the areas of Political and Moral philosophy and Critical Theory in Greek and International journals. Between 2015-2019 she served as an M.P for Corfu.