Dr Zsofia Szlamka is a developmental psychologist, researcher, and entrepreneur. She is an Economic and Social Research Council Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also a Senior Research Associate at Orygen, Australia. She is the co-founder of Mentalica.io, the first mental health marketplace for evidence-based digital solutions. She is the founder of AMKA Counselling, a cross-cultural mental health consultancy.
In 2022 she was selected to be on the Forbes 30under30 list in Hungary for her work in workplace mental health. She completed her PhD in King’s College London, investigating health inequalities, service development and empowerment of families raising children with developmental disorders in Ethiopia and in Argentina. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Network and used to curate its Cambridge Hub. She co-founded VOICES, a women empowerment platform connecting young professional women with public speaking opportunities.
She is passionate about equality of opportunities, loves learning about international development and is crazy about travelling – and reports about all these on her blog, The Travelling Psychologist.
