Christiana Maki is an education officer at CYQAA, managing HEIs' applications for programmatic, departmental and institutional evaluations. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA) and holds a Master of Science in Educational Leadership and Management from the Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM). She has worked for many years as a philologist in both private and public secondary schools in Cyprus.  She was also an officer of the European and International Affairs Office of the MoESY.

She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Education Sciences at the European University of Cyprus and her dissertation focuses on politics, education policy, and the construction of national identity.