Dr Nikolas E. Farantouris is Jean Monnet professor of EU & Energy Law and director of the MSc in Energy Strategy, Law & Economic at the International & European Studies Department, University of Piraeus, Greece. Attorney at law since 2001. He studied law at the University of Athens and completed a Master’s degree (MJur) in European and Comparative Law and a Doctorate (DPhil) in European Law, both at the University of Oxford. His work focuses on EU business law, competition law including state aids, energy law and regulation, shipping law, environmental protection and international trade law. He has published 11 monographs, textbooks and edited volumes and more than 60 papers in top scientific legal journals and periodical editions. He has held posts as visiting professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dresden University Germany, Athens University, European University Cyprus, Bahçeşehir University Istanbul, Oxford University, Paris Sorbonne et al. He has worked in Goldman Sachs’ Legal & Compliance Department in London and in Norton Rose LLP Competition & EU Law Department in London, Brussels and Athens, where he handled major antitrust, merger control, multinational cartel and state aid cases in the banking, energy, maritime and environmental protection sectors, before national and international authorities, the EU Commission and the European Court of Justice. He has also gained experience as a Board member of Hellenic Competition Commission and a member of the Board of Directors, General Counsel and Chairman of the Public Gas Corporation of Greece (DEPA) S.A., as well as Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of EUROGAS, the association of gas companies in Europe. He is a member of the Energy Committee of the Academy of Athens and active member of SYRIZA party.