Speaker

Christos Hadjiemmanuil was born in Athens, Greece in 1964. He studied law at Athens University (LLB.) and University College London (LL.M. and Ph.D.). He is the Professor of International and European Monetary and Financial Institutions at the University of Piraeus (June 2010– ), and a Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics & Political Science (May 2010– ). He is a member of the Athens Bar Association. He serves as Member of the Monetary Policy Council (April 2020– ) and Chair of the Audit Committee (April 2024– ) at the Bank of Greece’s Audit Committee. He is the Common Representative of the Greek supervisory authorities at the General Board of the European Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) (May 2025– ). A recognised specialist in European and international financial law and regulation, his research and publications focus in the areas of EMU and the Banking Union, banking resolution, banking and securities regulation, and financial law reform. He has acted as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he advised in the Global Bank Insolvency Initiative (2003–2004). More recently, he has been a member of the UNIDROIT Working Group on Bank Insolvency (2021–2025), which produced the UNIDROIT Legislative Guide on Bank Liquidation (adopted by the UNIDROIT Governing Council at its 105th session, Rome, 20-23 May 2025). He is a member (2003– ) and former Secretary (1996–2003) of the International Monetary Law Committee (MOCOMILA) of the International Law Association (ILA);a founding member and member of the Academic Board (Dec 2015– ) of the European Banking Institute (EBI);and a founding member and member of the Board of Directors (4 Mar 2019– ) of the Council for International Relations – Greece (CfIR-Gr). From September 2014 until April 2020, he served as Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Greece. From 2004 to 2007, he was President and CEO of Hellenic Olympic Properties, the special-purpose company responsible for the post-Olympic management of the Athens 2004 Olympic facilities. From 2007 to 2009, he was Chairman and CEO of the OPAP SA, one of Greece’s largest public corporations (at the time, the largest Greek company and largest gaming company globally by market capitalization). He has served as member of the Panel of Advisors (Jan 2005–2011), of the United Nations Thessaloniki Centre for Public Service Professionalism (UNTC), and its successor organization, United Nations Centre for Public Administration Reform (UNCPAR) for Eastern Europe and the CIS. He has been President of the Athens-based Center for Political Research, Greece’s oldest non-governmental think-tank.