Alexandra Delipalta, Director, RDA Europe
We are pleased to welcome Alexandra Delipalta to the National Open Research Festival (NORFest) 2025. She will chair the Global Open Research panel discussion on Thursday, 6 November 2025 at 11:00.
Alex Delipalta is the Director of RDA Europe, the regional office of the Research Data Alliance tasked with supporting the European RDA community, providing the link between global and regional initiatives and contributing to the work of the RDA through European Commission-funded projects. Alex has been a part of the RDA community since 2018 working with the RDA Secretariat. Before joining RDA Europe formally, she spent six years at the Digital Curation Centre in Edinburgh, where she held multiple roles, including that of Strategy and Operations Specialist.
Alex holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and an MSc in Developmental Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh.