Vassiliki Lazarakou, JSD

Chair of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC)

Member of the Management Board of ESMA

Member of the Board of IOSCO

Chair of the ESAs Joint Sub-Committee on Securitizations

Member of the Bureau of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee.

Member of European Investment Bank Group (EIB)’s new Women Climate Leaders

Network (WCLN)

 

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

Vassiliki Lazarakou has been a member of the IOSCO Board for a 2-year term (October 2022 –October 2024) since HCMC was elected by the European Regional Committee (ERC) as its Representative to the IOSCO Board.

She has also been re-elected as a member of the Bureau of the Corporate Governance Committee of the OECD for the year 2024.

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 in 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 headed the relevant Banking, Capital Markets and Finance Department of such Firms. From 2012 -2015 she was also a First Vice-Chair of the HCMC.