Karin Markides, born 1951, is a Swedish professor in analytical chemistry and President and CEO of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology from 1 June 2023.

[2] Markides completed her doctorate degree at Stockholm University 1984 with the thesis Organosiloxanes containing cyano groups for capillary chromatography.

Fourteen years later, in May 2004, she was employed as vice director general of Vinnova, the Swedish innovation agency.

Markides has been chairman of the Scientific Council for Sustainable Development under the Swedish government (vetenskapliga rådet för hållbar utveckling) since 2015.

[4] The council's mission is to give evidence-based, concrete suggestions for development of financial, ecological, cultural and social sustainability for the government's longterm sustainability vision.