Speaker

Vassiliki Lazarakou, JSD
Chair of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC)
Member the Management Board of ESMA & the Board of IOSCO
Member of the Bureau of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee

Dr. Lazarakou has a Doctorate in Law (JSD) from New York University School of Law, New York, U.S.A. and an LLM in International Legal Studies from the same University as well as a Bachelor in Law from the Athens University, School of Law. She is a lawyer admitted at both the Athens Bar and the New York Bar Association with expertise on capital markets, M&As, privatizations, corporate and commercial law and other similar issues. She has worked for more than 20 years as a Partner at several law firms and for more than 10 years she was heading the relevant Banking, Capital Markets and Finance Department of such Firms.
Also, she elected Chair of the Diversity Network of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and she has been appointed as a member of European Investment Bank (EIB)’s new EU Women Climate Leaders Network (EU WCLN).