Vassiliki Lazarakou, JSD – Chair of the Hellenic Capital Markets Commission 
Member of the Management Board of ESMA and the Board of Directors of IOSCO; 
Chair of the ESAs Joint Sub-Committee on Securitizations.

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 and an Alternate Member of the Enforcement Panel of ESMA.

Recently, 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.

Vassiliki is a lawyer, admitted to both Athens Bar (Supreme Court Lawyer) and New York Bar, USA. She is an expert in capital markets, banking and finance law as well as in M&As and has led a large number of international and domestic business transactions.

She was the first Vice-Chair of the Hellenic Capital Markets Commission (HCMC) from September 2012 until end of December 2015. During her term, she achieved the political agreement for the adoption of the Regulation and Directive on “Markets in Financial Instruments” (MiFID II/ MIFIR) as Chair of the relevant Working Group of the Council in 2014. She continued to work on the regulatory framework of MIFID II / MIFIR, by chairing, until May 2016, the Committee appointed by the Ministry of Finance in Greece for the transposition of MiFID II into Greek law. Also, she chaired the Council Working Group for the draft Regulation on European Long Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs) and managed to achieve the general approach by the Council in June 2014.

She has worked for more than 20 years as a Partner at several prominent law firms and for more than 10 years she was heading the relevant Banking, Capital Markets and Finance Department of such Firms. In 2000 and for one year she worked at the legal department of the Athens Stock Exchange. 

She has a Doctorate in Law (JSD) from New York University School of Law, New York, U.S.A. and her Doctoral thesis was on “Greek privatizations in International Perspective”. She also has an LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law and Bachelor in Law from the Athens University, School of Law. 

Vassiliki Lazarakou has participated in a large number of Seminars by teaching several capital markets and banking issues (indicatively, corporate governance issues of financial institutions, MIFID II/ MIFIR, AML, etc.). 

She is the author of a large number of articles in newspapers relating to capital markets issues (such as, implementation of MiFID II issues, SMEs, ELTIFs, Power Market in Greece, etc.) and co-author of several legal publications (on issues such as takeover bids, obligations of listed entities, etc.).