Hariklia Proios is associate professor of Neurocognitive Disorders and Rehabilitation at the Department of Educational and Social Policy of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece. She heads the SLP Department of the Anagennisis Rehabilitation Centre and has been involved with the organisation of community support groups in several countries. Since 2019 she has been responsible for the educational portion of the Angels project, FAST Heroes. Prof Proios holds a PhD degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA from Hofstra University. She was an assistant professor at Montclair State University where she received tenure and worked as research associate at the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory at Harvard University. She also worked as research affiliate of the Neuropsychology Unit of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital of Zurich. Her research interests include adult aphasia, visual hemi-spatial neglect, and number processing difficulties in aphasic subjects, and the development and implementation of theoretical constructs for evaluating neurological cases. She has been the president of the Stroke Alliance For Europe (SAFE) since 2020, and a SAFE board member since 2016, representing the Hellenic Alliance for Stroke SSO. She has been a member of the National Aphasia Association Advisory Council since 2009 and of the Multicultural Task Force. Since 2016 she has been a member of the Academy of Aphasia. In 2018 she was selected for the Emerging Leaders Program of the World Heart Federation (WHF). She is active in stroke and rehabilitation committees in the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Congress of Rehab Medicine.