Dr Angela Evangelinou-Yiannakis
Education and Leadership Consultant (GLCI)
Is a graduate of The University of Western Australia (UWA); BA, GradDipEd, MEd (Hons), EdD. She holds a Teacher’s Higher Certificate from the Department of Education, WA, and has three certificates for competency in Modern Greek (TAFEWA; The Aristotle University, Greece; and the Centre for the Greek Language, Greece).
A secondary school teacher of English and Languages (Greek and French), Angela has been in the profession for over 40 years, teaching in all tiers; primary, secondary and tertiary, the latter of which includes teaching pre-service teachers at UWA, The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), Deakin University (DU), and Australian Catholic University (ACU). Angela has also taught Modern Greek to adults at UWA and UNDA.
A secondary school teacher of English and Languages (Greek and French), Angela has been in the profession for over 40 years, teaching in all tiers; primary, secondary and tertiary, the latter of which includes teaching pre-service teachers at UWA, The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), Deakin University (DU), and Australian Catholic University (ACU). Angela has also taught Modern Greek to adults at UWA and UNDA.
Pol (Polychronis) Koutsakis
Principal (GLCI)
Was born in Chania, Crete, Greece in 1974.
He has won the National Book Award for Young Adult Literature in Greece, in 2016, for “Just one breath”, the second novel of his "Trilogy of Crete" crime novels. He has also won twice the National Award for Playwriting in Greece.
“Athenian Blues” and “Baby Blue” are the first two novels in the Stratos Gazis crime series, which is published by Bitter Lemon Press in the UK, USA and Australia and by Patakis Publications in Greece. Publishers Weekly, which for 150 years has been considered the “bible of the books business” in the USA has compared Pol favourably to James Elroy, the leading American crime writer.
He has won the National Book Award for Young Adult Literature in Greece, in 2016, for “Just one breath”, the second novel of his "Trilogy of Crete" crime novels. He has also won twice the National Award for Playwriting in Greece.
“Athenian Blues” and “Baby Blue” are the first two novels in the Stratos Gazis crime series, which is published by Bitter Lemon Press in the UK, USA and Australia and by Patakis Publications in Greece. Publishers Weekly, which for 150 years has been considered the “bible of the books business” in the USA has compared Pol favourably to James Elroy, the leading American crime writer.
