Korinna Patelis

Sketch of Korinna Patelis by Nanos Valaoritis in 2007. Korinna Patelis (Athens, Greece 1972) is a Greek academic, theorist in the field of Internet studies, and digital policymaker. Her research and teaching focuses on the political economy of the Internet and the structural concentration of media and tech power. Her work outside of academia has included content marketing, designing, and Digital strategy for the Greek left-wing coalition Syriza's winning campaign in 2015, consulting for former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and large-scale digital project implementations such as the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. She wrote a monograph, The Road to Neofeudalism: Technology, the Left and the Future (2026), about Tsipras, Yanis Varoufakis, and their relationship to digital policy.

Personal life and family

Patelis is descended from a prominent intellectual and feminist lineage. Through her maternal line, she is a direct descendant of the 19th-century feminist intellectual Sappho Leontias, who served as the Director of the Zappeion Girls' School in Constantinople. Her father is Ioli Patelis, an emeritus Professor of philosophy of science, who is related to the modernist sculptor Lazaros Lameras, a professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts and a pioneer of abstraction.