Vassiliki Lazarakou is currently the Chair of the Hellenic Capital Markets Commission (HCMC) and Member of the Board of Supervisors as well as the Management Board of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). She is also the Chair of ESAs Joint Sub- Committee on Securitizations.
HCMC was elected as the Representative of the European Regional Committee (ERC) to the IOSCO Board for a two year term since October 2022 and Vassiliki Lazarakou is representing HCMC as a member of IOSCO Board.
She has been also elected as a member of the Bureau of the Corporate Governance Committee of the OECD for the year 2023.
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.