Vassiliki Lazarakou

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 European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and she has been elected as a member of the Management Board of ESMA with term until December 2025. She is also the chair of the JC Sub-Committee on Securitizations. 

Vassiliki Lazarakou had been a member of the IOSCO Board since October 2022 until October 2024), 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 has been 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.