Vassiliki Lazarakou, JSD

BIOGRAPHY

Vassiliki Lazarakou is Chair of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) since September 2019. She is also a Member of the Board of Supervisors of European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). She has been elected as a Member of the Management Board of ESMA and she is the Chair of the JC Sub- Committee on Securitizations.

Vassiliki Lazarakou has been a member of the IOSCO Board since October 2022 until October 2024) and she was re- elected for another 2year term, as a representative of the European Regional Committee (ERC) to the IOSCO Board. She was recently elected as the Chair of the newly established Diversity Network of IOSCO.

She is a member of the Bureau of the Corporate Governance Committee of the OECD since November 2022.

She has been also appointed as a Member of Women Climate Leaders Network (WCLN) of the European Investment Bank Group (EIB Group)

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. From 2012 -2015 she was also a First Vice-Chair of the HCMC.