Vassiliki Lazarakou, JSD
Chair of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC)
Member of the Management Board of European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
Member of the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and Chair of the Diversity Network of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)
Member of the Bureau of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee
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) and she has been elected as a Member of the Management Board of ESMA since 2020 with term until December 2025.
Vassiliki Lazarakou has been a member of the IOSCO Board since October 2022 for a 2 year term and she was recently re-elected for another 2 year term, until May 2026, as a representative of the European Regional Committee (ERC) to the IOSCO Board and 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.
