Nayia Yiakoumaki has been the Director of the Hellenic Center in London since September 2022. From 2005 to 2022, she was a curator at Whitechapel Gallery, where from 2016 she also served as Head of Curatorial Studies and founding director of the MA Curating Art and Public Programs, developed in collaboration with London South Bank University. At Whitechapel, Yiakoumaki developed an innovative program of research exhibitions for the Archive Gallery, worked on commissions, and from 2011 to 2020 devised and directed the NEON Curatorial Exchange & Award – an annual curatorial exchange program, founded and funded by the NEON Organization and delivered by Whitechapel Gallery. She also co-directed the Athens Biennale from 2016 to 2017.