Spyros Avlonitis graduated from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in data and knowledge management. He continued his studies in artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained a master’s degree. His master’s thesis, dedicated to the field of reinforcement learning, was presented at the international conference RecSys 23 in Singapore. In addition, for five years, he has been working in the Netherlands as a software engineer, with deep experience in web and machine learning applications. His research interests in the field of artificial intelligence extend to reinforcement learning and advanced language models. Spyros Avlonitis is from Piraeus and graduated from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in data and knowledge management. He continued his studies in artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained a master’s degree. His master’s thesis, dedicated to the field of reinforcement learning, was presented at the international conference RecSys 23 in Singapore. In addition, for five years, he has been working in the Netherlands as a software engineer, with deep experience in web and machine learning applications. His research interests in artificial intelligence extend to reinforcement learning and advanced language models.

Athena Kalliakouda comes from Antikyra in Boeotia. She graduated from the Athens Law School and holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Law. She is a member of the Athens Bar Association and has been practicing martial law since 2018 in the fields of civil and commercial law. She has experience in the compliance of legal entities/businesses with the General Regulation of Personal Data Protection. She is a partner of the law firm “NIKOLAOU KALLIAKOUDA AND ASSOCIATES LAW FIRM”. She practiced as a lawyer in the legal department of the National Bank of Greece. She also has systematically dealt with sports. She is an active volleyball player and participates in national championships.

Emmanuela Kolovetsiou-Baliafa is a qualifies lawyer specializing in tax law, working since 2017 in a law firm in Athens, while today she works in one of the largest multinational companies providing auditing, consulting and tax services. Her role focuses on indirect and direct taxation issues at the national and international level as well as customs legislation issues, providing both advisory services and legal support in tax-related disputes at the administrative and judicial level. She is a member of the Larissa Bar Association and a graduate of the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, having also received a scholarship following a written competition. She also holds a master’s degree in Tax Law from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has also attended the annual specialized Greek taxation program of the company PwC Academy.

Akrivi Kyriakou was born in 1992 and comes from Tripoli, Arcadia. In 2015 she graduated from the Department of Philology of the University of Patras, while then she studied at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from where she received her degree in 2020. In 2022 she received a master’s degree in Commercial Law from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while in 2023 she completed the inter-institutional postgraduate program “Law and Economics”, which is conducted by the Department of Economic Sciences of the University of Macedonia in collaboration with the School of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her scientific interests revolve mainly around drug patent law and mergers and acquisitions of pharmaceutical companies, issues that she deals with thoroughly in her diplomatic work, but also in her daily legal practice. She practices litigating law as a partner in a law office in Thessaloniki, where she mainly deals with commercial law, IT law and financial crime cases, possessing significant consulting and judicial experience. In 2018, she received a scholarship from the organizer Julius – Maximilianus Universität Würzburg Law School for her participation in the winter school “European Business Law”, while she has participated in two spring schools of the Aristotle University and the KE.DI.VI.M. on financial crime and money laundering. She is certified as a specialist scientist in cybercrime and cyber security. Drafts corporate anti-money laundering compliance policies and delivers related training seminars to corporate officers and employees. She speaks English, French, German and Italian.

Christina Michelakaki has a legal background and holds two master degrees with the most recent one being an LL.M on Information Technology, Media & Communications Law from the London School of Economics (LSE) (2022, London), where she wrote her thesis on Automated decision-making and the “right to an explanation” under the GDPR. She is an EU qualified lawyer and a member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association in Greece. For two years, she has been working in Brussels, currently as a Policy Counsel for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). She is following global trends in data protection, privacy and AI laws around the world but also focuses on European and national case law, recent academic research, guidelines, and decisions from the EDPB and national DPAs and actively monitors the relevant activity of EU institutions. She has been conducting extensive research on Data Protection by Design and by Default and was one of the principal authors of an FPF Report pertaining to this matter. Her research interests also revolve around fundamental rights, children’s privacy and Artificial Intelligence.

Adam Marios Paschalidis is a graduate of Athens University of Law, with postgraduate studies in International Arbitration and Business Law. For the last three years he has been working in Luxembourg on behalf of a multinational law firm based in the USA. He specializes in providing legal advice to Asset Managers and Alternative Investment Funds.
He has emerged as an exclusive advisor to the company’s clients on matters of harmonization with the European rules of sustainable development (SFDR/ Taxonomy), while taking on cases related to issues of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets. His area of interest also lies in artificial intelligence and DLT technology.
His aim is to contribute to the Institute’s areas of activity, with an emphasis on Economy and Commerce.

Athena Schina was born in Athens on December 31, 1993, and she comes from Megara Attica. She serves as a Judge of the Administrative Court of First Instance of Piraeus from September 2023 following her admission to the National School of Judicial Officers (2021). She completed her undergraduate studies at the Law School of the University of Athens (2011-2015), and then received two postgraduate degrees, in “Public Law” (2016) and “Tax Law” (2017) from the Law School of the University of Athens. She is a candidate for a PhD in Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the same University, while she speaks English, German, French and Spanish.

Dionysios Tsachouridis is a Law School graduate and a registered lawyer in Cyprus. He holds an L.L.M. degree in International Tax Law from the University of Amsterdam Law School and the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), and holds a diploma in the Luxembourg taxation from the Luxembourg Ministry of Education. He has worked in the Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus specializing in administrative law cases, in a Dutch company provider of trust and banking services as a compliance officer, and in a multinational audit/consulting firm in Luxembourg as an international tax law consultant. He specializes in Transfer Pricing, EU Tax Law, Double Tax Treaties & Negotiation, and VAT/GST.

Achilles Tsoutsis is a lawyer and business consultant, specializing in international transactions and dispute resolution. He holds an LL.B and an LL.M in Private International Law from the University of Athens, and an LL.M International Economic Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). He also holds a minor in Finance from DEREE, and has completed courses and diplomas in economics & policy at IELPO and Humboldt, film direction at EICAR Paris, and International Business at Harvard Extension School. He is also a registered arbitrator of the Athens Chamber of Commerce. He speaks English and French, has served as Secretary General of ELSA Athens and has participated in numerous MUN conferences as well as moot court competitions (Phillip C. Jessup, VIS). He has experience from governmental institutions (intern at the Bank of Greece), international law firms (Quinn Emanuel Paris & LALIVE Geneva) as well as corporate groups (KAPPA financial and ATESE & MILTECH Group). For the last two years he is the senior legal counsel of ATESE & MILTECH S. A., a group active in construction, defense, energy and new technologies, as well as of EKOME Media, the body managing state aid to the audiovisual industry, of the Ministry of Culture, and he is a PhD candidate at the Law School of Athens.

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Androniki Maria Tzomaka hails from Ioannina (Greece) and is a member of the Nafplio Bar Association. She graduated from the School of Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1998 and earned a Master’s degree in European Cultural Policies from the Faculty of Law at the Université de Bourgogne (France) in 2001. She studied in the postgraduate program Computer Science at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Peloponnese (Greece) in 2022. Her research focused on the regulation and use of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Administration. Additionally, she obtained distance learning certificates in International Cyber Conflicts from The State University of New York (2020) and in Information Security: Context and Introduction from Royal Holloway, University of London (2020). She is fluent in English, French and Italian. She has worked in the public sector in Greece and France, as well as at the European Commission in Brussels. She has 20 years of experience managing European co-financed projects for the public sector. She has expertise in DG COMMUNICATION projects focused on public communication issues and has worked as an expert in DG REFORM projects related to digital transformation of public administration. Additionally, she has provided her services to European networks such as Europe Direct (European Commission) and Club de Strasbourg (Ville de Strasbourg in partnership with the Council of Europe). She has coordinated the organization of scientific collaborations in the town of Nafplio between the municipality’s legal entities and the National Hellenic Research Foundation, the Library of the Hellenic Parliament, the Academy of Athens and Harvard’s University Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece. She has also coordinated European co-financed projects for cultural heritage digitization for the Municipality of Nafplio and established synergies with the Department of Applied Geomatics of Hogent University (Ghent, Belgium).

* It is noted that Rythmisis Consultants by participating in the Institute do not enter into any kind of dependent or independent working relationship with it and are not paid for their contribution to the Code writing teams.

The Rythmisis Consultants who have undertaken to provide technical expertise and experience in the individual sectors, for the creation of the guidelines (Rythmisis Code) for the three aspects of the Institute’s work, in collaboration with the legal advisors, are the following:

* It is noted that Rythmisis Consultants by participating in the Institute do not enter into any kind of dependent or independent working relationship with it and are not paid for their contribution to the Code writing teams.

Anastasis Paliouras – Legal Intern

He comes from Elassona, and he is a graduate of the Department of History and Ethnology of the University of Athens and currently a third-year student of law at the University of Athens. He is a certified Data Protection Officer (DPO) and holder of professional training certificates in the field of information systems and cyber security (provided by Google, IBM, issued by coursera). He has basic programming knowledge (Python, C). He has successfully participated in a summer school with the subject of European criminal law, with an in-depth study of economic criminal law (AFTH) and as a member of the organizing committee (Coordinator) in another summer school on European constitutional law (ELSA-AUTH). He is also an active member of two non-political associations (European Law Students’ Association, United Nations’ society), as well as the first study laboratory on Animal Law in Greece (Dogs’ voice in collaboration with the law schools of Greece). Finally, he writes annually for the legal magazine “expressis verbis Law journal” content on issues of Constitutional Law.