CELIS - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor of Globalization and Development at Maastricht University
He is the Principal Investigator of the research project Legitimacy, Financialization, and Varieties of Capitalism: Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe (SWFsEUROPE) funded by the European Research Council. This project is focused on explaining how sovereign wealth funds are made legitimate as state actors in global and European financial markets, and how these funds are being used to legitimize and facilitate state intervention in economic development in countries across the income spectrum. In addition to his scholarship, Dr. Dixon consulted for or advised a range of international organizations and NGOs, such as the OECD Development Centre, the World Bank, the European Commission, the World Economic Forum, the Center for Global Development, Chatham House, the Wilson Center, and the Pacific Pension & Investment Institute.
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Adam D. Dixon is Associate Professor of Globalization and Development at Maastricht University. He is the Principal Investigator of the research project Legitimacy, Financialization, and Varieties of Capitalism: Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe (SWFsEUROPE) funded by the European Research Council. This project is focused on explaining how sovereign wealth funds are made legitimate as…
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- Assistant Country Reporter France / CELIS Institute
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2019, Agnieszka Nosowicz is an associate within the International Trade and Regulation practice group of Gide Loyrette Nouel in Brussels. Her expertise is focused on EU and international trade law, particularly trade defence proceedings (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard investigations). Agnieszka regularly advises on EU and third country (notably Morocco and GCC) trade defence, as well as on EU trade barriers investigations. Agnieszka's work also covers foreign investment control, EU export controls and economic sanctions, trade regulatory matters, as well as disputes before EU courts.
Agnieszka is a graduate of University Paris-Dauphine in European and International Commercial Law. She regularly contributes to the Global Trade and Customs Journal and other publications.
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- Associate Professor at the University of Macau
Alexandr Svetlicinii is associate professor at the University of Macau, Faculty of Law, where he also serves as Program Coordinator of the Master of International Business Law in English Language. Prior to joining the University of Macau, Svetlicinii was a senior researcher at the Jean Monnet Chair of European Law at the Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia. His works in the fields of competition law and international economic law appeared in European Law Review, Common Market Law Review, European Competition Journal, World Competition Law and Economics Review, Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law and Policy, Journal of World Trade, Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, etc. Prof. Svetlicinii is the author of the monograph The Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and EU Merger Control (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of The BRICS-Lawyers' Guide to Global Cooperation (Cambridge, 2017). In addition to his academic work, Prof. Svetlicinii served as the Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network (working group Mergers) and co-director of the South East Europe chapter of the Academic Society for Competition Law
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- Ginevri Is CELIS Country Reporter for Italy
- Ginevri Is Full Professor of Economic Law at Uninettuno University of Rome
He got a Ph.D. in Law and Economics at Roma Tre University of Rome and an LL.M at Fordham University School of Law. He was visiting scholar at Columbia University Law School.
He is author of several books, essays and publications in scientific journals and speaker at national and international conferences. His research interests are mainly focused on FDI screening, corporate law and securities regulation. He participates at several editorial boards of scientific reviews, domestic and international, and he belongs to many academic associations in his field.
He is partner at Chiomenti law firm in the M&A practice and member of both the Rome and NYC bars.
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- Co - Founder CELIS Initiative
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- Assistant Country Reporter
Anton Tugushev is a Russian qualified lawyer and holds two PhD degrees from Russian Customs Academy and City University of Hong Kong. Anton worked in the Ministry of the Development of the Russian Far East, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Anton does consultency work to law firms in Russia and Hong Kong. His current professional and research endeavors are focused on international investment law, taxation law and dispute resolution. Specific topics of his strong attention are the special (free) economic zones and the theory of «law and development
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- Assistant Country Reporter Hungary / CELIS Institute
Bálint KOVÁCS, LL.M., is a PhD candidate at the Marton Géza Doctoral School of Legal Studies at Debrecen University, Hungary. He is currently working full time as a researcher at the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, Department of Private Law in Budapest, Hungary and teaches International Economic Law at Sapientia University in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, Romania. His research focuses mainly on international investment law, but he is also interested in general international law, human rights law and the protection of national minorities. Before fully focusing on research he worked as a legal advisor for a number of SMEs and NGOs. He is a founding member of Advocacy Group for Freedom of Identity, a human rights NGO. He is fluent in Hungarian, English and Romanian.
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- Assistant
- Assistant Country Reporter China / CELIS Institute
- Law and a Graduate Teaching Assistant
Charles Ho Wang Mak is a PhD Candidate in international law and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law at the City University of Hong Kong, an Honorary Fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong, and a Research Affiliate at SovereigNET, The Fletcher School, Tufts University. His research concentrates on sovereign debt restructuring and dispute resolution.
Charles has studied law at the University of Sussex in England (LL.B. (Hons.)), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (LL.M. in International Economic Law), and the City University of Hong Kong (LL.M.Arb.D.R.(with Credit)). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (FHKIArb), the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand (FAMINZ (Arb/Med)), the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution (FAIADR), and the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (FRAS). He earned accreditation as a tribunal secretary at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.
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- Assistant Country Reporter China / CELIS Institute
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- Counsel at the Berlin
- Senior Fellow / CELIS Institute
Christoph Arhold is counsel at the Berlin and Brussels offices of White & Case LLP. His main practice areas are German and European competition law, including mergers, cartels and-in particular-State aid. He also has substantial experience in other fields of EU and national law with international dimensions such as export control law and more and more importantly FDI control law. He has advised German and international clients in various industries, including glass, chemicals, transport and financial services. He also represented the German Government in cases before the highest national administrative courts and the European Court of Justice (ECJ). He has significant know-how in representing clients in State aid cases before both the European Commission and the EU Courts. He obtained the first ever suspension order in a State aid case before the Community Courts in the landmark TGI case.
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- Assistant Country Reporter Peru / CELIS Institute
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- Country Reporter Hungary / CELIS Institute
- Professor
Csongor István Nagy is CELIS Country Reporter for Hungary.
Csongor István Nagy is professor of law at and the head of the Department of Private International Law at the University of Szeged and research chair at the Center for Social Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network. He is recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University (Budapest/New York/Vienna) and the Sapientia University of Transylvania (Romania). He is associate member at the Center for Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen. He is admitted to the Budapest Bar, arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and member of the Panel of Conciliators and Arbitrators at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
Csongor graduated at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences (ELTE, dr. jur.) in Budapest, in 2003, where he also earned a Ph.D. in 2009. During his studies he was a member of the István Bibó College of Law and of the Invisible College. He received master (LL.M., 2004) and S.J.D. degrees (2010) from the Central European University (CEU). He pursued graduate studies in Rotterdam, Heidelberg and Ithaca, New York (Cornell University). He had visiting appointments in the Hague (Asser Institute), Munich (twice, Max Planck Institute), Brno (Masarykova University), CEU Business School (Budapest), Hamburg (Max Planck Institute), Edinburgh (University of Edinburgh), London (BIICL), Riga (Riga Graduate School of Law), Bloomington, Indiana (Indiana University), Brisbane, Australia (University of Queensland), Beijing (China-EU School of Law), Taipei, Taiwan (National Chengchi University), Florence (European University Institute) and Rome (LUISS); and was senior fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation in Canada and Eurojus legal counsel in the European Commission's Representation in Hungary.
He has more than 210 publications in English, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian and (in translation) in Croatian and Spanish, which have been cited, among others, by the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Hungarian Supreme Court.
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- Reporter
- Country Reporter Greece / CELIS Institute
Maria Fanou is CELIS Country Reporter for Greece.
Dr Maria Fanou is a Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Her research interests focus on, international economic law (esp. international investment law), international dispute resolution (esp. international arbitration), and EU law. Maria is also a Postdoctoral Researcher and an Assistant Editor of the Kluwer Arbitration Blog. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Arbitration at Queen Mary University (CCLS, School of International Arbitration) and a Visiting Lecturer at the Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS, University of Kent). Maria has also held visiting research positions at various institutions including the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg where she was a Visiting Scholar (Scholarship 2018), the BU Pardee Center for the Study of Europe and the Harvard Law School, where she was a Fulbright Schuman Scholar.
Maria completed her Ph.D. at the European University Institute in Florence, a Bachelor's Degree in Law (LL.B.) and a Postgraduate Diploma (Master) in Civil Law at the University of Athens, as well as postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge (LL.M.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.). She has gained practical experience in dispute resolution and, in particular, international arbitration in law firms in Athens, Brussels, and Paris.
Dr. Dr. Claus Zimmermann is the lead lawyer in Noerr's Brussels office for any issues involving international and EU trade law, EU regulatory affairs as well as contentious proceedings. He advises large enterprises and governments on all aspects of EU foreign trade and regulatory law as well as on international economic law, especially WTO law. He has many years of experience as litigation counsel in complex proceedings before the WTO (assisting clients at all stages of WTO dispute settlement, in over 20 distinct disputes, across a wide range of WTO agreements), the Court of Justice of the European Union and various national courts. The main focus of his practice over the past decade has been the development and enforcement of international and EU trade and investment rules, notably with respect to trade barriers, trade remedies, customs, EU sanctions law and export controls. Claus also advises on the legal and policy implications of Brexit and assists clients in identifying and pursuing their interests in the negotiation of new bilateral and regional trade agreements. He holds a doctorate in public international law from the University of Oxford, a doctorate in public economics from University Paris 1 "Panthéon Sorbonne" and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. His research has been published in leading journals such as the American Journal of International Law and the European Journal of International Law.
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- Partner
- Member of the Firm
Dr. Henning Berger is a partner of international law firm White & Case LLP in Berlin. Henning is a member of the firm`s international financial advisory group and heads their German and EU financial regulatory practice. A focus of Henning`s practice is on European and cross-border issues of banking and insurance supervision, including the supervision by the European Central Bank in the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and ownership control. His clients include national and international banking and insurance companies as well as government entities and institutions, such as the German Federal government. Henning represents his clients in leading regulatory cases before the German administrative courts as well as before the German Constitutional Court and the Court of the European Union.
Henning Berger regularly speaks and publishes on current issues of European and German banking supervisory law. Recent publications: "Financial Services and Brexit: Navigating Towards Future Market Access", in: European Business Organization Law Review 2018 (with Badenhoop); "Bankenaufsicht" (Banking Supervision), in: Lieder/Wilk/Ghassemi-Tabar, Münchener Handbuch des Gesellschaftsrechts, Bd. 8 (Umwandlungsrecht), 2018, Chapt. 64; "Brexit - Folgen für Kreditinstitute" (Brexit - Consequences for Credit Institutions), Wertpapiermitteilungen 2018, 1078 (with Badenhoop); "Frage der Zuständigkeit der EZB zur Aufsicht über eine Landeskreditbank" (On the competence of the ECB to supervise a German development bank), Note on the decision of the General Court of 16 May 2018, WuB 2018, 60; "Stützung, Abwicklung und Entschädigung: Aktuelle Abgrenzungsfragen in der Bankenion" (Support, resolution and compensation: Current issues of the Banking Union), in: Kayser/Smid/Riedemann, Festschrift Pannen, 2017, 3; "Rechtsanwendung durch die EZB im Single Supervisory Mechanism" (Application of law by the ECB in the Single Supervisory Mechanism), Wertpapiermitteilungen 2016, 2325 (part I), 2361 (part 2).
Henning is a certified lawyer for administrative law ("Fachanwalt für Verwaltungsrecht"). After studying law at the Universities of Constance and Berlin, he received his PhD in law from the Freie Universität Berlin.
Dr. Rahmi Kopar is a lecturer in Private International Law Division at the Law Faculty of Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University in Turkey and he teaches ‘International Investment Law' and ‘Introduction to Energy Law' modules here. He completed his LLM at the University of Vienna in 2013 and his PhD on international energy investment arbitration in…
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- Professor of Law for International Business & Corporate Securities Law
Eish Taneja is currently professor of Law for International Business & Corporate Securities Law in Lal Baldur Institute of Management based in New Delhi. He teaches and researches in the areas of international economic law, esp. international investment law, Indian laws. He is also faculty at the University of GDGU and also faculty at NDIM, New Delhi.
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- Assistant Country Reporter
- Consultant for European Bank for Reconstruction
Elvis is an experienced professional with developed expertise in business and investment law, public policies reform dialogue and studies in public law. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Law and Master LL.M in European and Constitutional Comparative Right, from the University of Tirana. His dissertations "Execution of the Constitutional Courts Final Decisions in a Comparative Approach" and "Independent Constitutional Institutions and The Relations Among Them" focus respectively on the importance of the Constitutional Court's final decisions and their crosscuttings with the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, and with the role of independent institutions as centres of power in democracy.
He holds a CPD qualification on Regulation: Theory, Strategy and Practice by London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently pursuing the advance studies in Leadership for Global Business and Politics with the University of Yale, School of Management. Elvis is a member of the National Bar Association since 2008 and he holds several qualifications from national and international institutions in Justice, American Government & Constitutional Foundations, Anti-Corruption Compliance Programs and Conflict of Interests.
Since 2015, Elvis works as a consultant for European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the Albania Investment Council Secretariat, a public-private dialogue platform established in the frame of Investment Climate and Good Governance Initiative. He currently holds the position of legal and regulatory expert responsible for providing detailed analyses, researches and practical recommendations on legal and regulatory reforms that aim to foster FDIs and improve the business climate in the country. Previous working experiences, include more than ten years of expertise with international companies in banking and electronic communications.
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- Country Reporter Bangladesh / CELIS Institute
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- Assistant
- Assistant Country Reporter Italy / CELIS Institute
Federico Riganti obtained his Master Degree in Law - summa cum laude - at the University of Turin in 2010, discussing a thesis on the Islamic Finance sector. In 2016, he was awarded with a Ph.D. in Company Law and Capital Market Regulations at the University of Bologna (final grade: excellent). In Bologna, he defended a thesis on "Corporate Governance and Internal Control System of Banks. Developments in the Regulatory Framework from the Consolidated Banking Act to the Prudential Supervisory Dispositions for Banks". He carried out the research for the aforementioned thesis in Italy and in the U.S., thanks to a visiting period in 2014 at Fordham University Law School in New York, where he focused his studies on the peculiarities of the U.S. System on the subject matter. This research period formed the basis for his first and second monographs, both focused on certain aspects of banking corporate governance and on banking (and in general financial) regulation and supervision within Europe.
Currently, he serves as a Research Associate (ricercatore) at the University of Turin. He is also Adjunct Professor at ESCP Europe Business School, in the course "Contract and Business Law in Europe". Reference made to his other affiliations, he is an Associate Researcher of the European Banking Institute (EBI), and inter alia member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), of the SIRD (Società italiana per la ricerca nel diritto comparato), and of the Association Henri Capitant des amis de la culture juridique française. He is also working as associate lawyer in a Law Firm in Turin-Milan-Rome, where he deals daily with practical issues concerning banking and financial market regulations.
Francesca Ghiretti covers EU-China relations with a focus on economic security and China's global investments. Before joining MERICS, she worked as a Research Fellow Asia at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome leading a project on the Belt and Road Initiative in Italy. Previously, she also worked as a geopolitical analyst for CQS, a London-based hedge fund and as assistant to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, former Secretary General of NATO. Ghiretti holds a PhD from King's College London, where she is a Leverhulme fellow at the Centre for Grand Strategy.
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- Assistant Country Reporter India / CELIS Institute
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- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Country Reporter Sweden / CELIS Institute
Hannes Lenk is Assistant Professor in Law at Aarhus University, Denmark, and
Researcher at both the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies and Gothenburg University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in law from Gothenburg University, Sweden and obtained an LLM in European Law from Leiden University, the Netherlands. His research revolves around the intersection between international investment law and EU external relations law. He has published in a range of peer-reviewed journals on issues including the EU investment court system, the EU principle of Autonomy, and the EU's international responsibility. As a member of the ISDS Academic Forum he contributes actively to the UNCITRAL ISDS reform initiative on issues including authoritative interpretations by international courts and tribunals. Outside of academia, Dr. Lenk spent time at the European Commission, Directorate General for Trade.
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- Assistant Country Reporter Denmark / CELIS Institute
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- Country Reporter Estonia / CELIS Institute
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- CEO and Co - Founder of Datenna
Jaap van Etten is CEO and co-founder of Datenna, a company building software platforms for economic intelligence on China exclusively for governments. With a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Innovation Policy, Jaap worked as a Dutch diplomat in China for over a decade, focusing on the Chinese innovation landscape. While analyzing scientific and technological trends in China, he experienced the limited access to accurate and reliable information at firsthand. This experience, combined with his background as a software engineer, led him to start Datenna; a company striving for a fair global economic level playing field, by solving the information imbalance with China.
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- Deputy Assistant Director / CELIS Institute
- Deputy Assistant Director at CELIS Institute
Janosch Wiesenthal currently serves as Deputy Assistant Director at CELIS Institute. Before, Janosch held the position of Managing Editor Content & Country.
Janosch is a PhD candidate at the University of Passau currently working on a thesis which focuses on the relation between Foreign Investment Screening and the Charter on Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Before becoming a PhD candidate, he worked as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Steffen Hindelang at Uppsala University in Sweden. Last year, he successfully completed his law studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin by passing the first state exam. He also studied at the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, where he specialised in international law and obtained both the "Licence en droit" as well as the "Maitrîse en droit". As a student he worked in a law firm for international business law in Berlin with a focus on France.
His current research focusses on European Union law, public international law, especially international investment law and its interaction with the aforementioned legal orders. Furthermore, he is interested in analysis of investment screening mechanisms, investment control in the broader sense as well as a variety of topics related to cross-border transactions, in particular with France.
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- Head of Event and Sponsor Relations / CELIS Institute
- Head of Event and Sponsor Relations at CELIS Institute
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- Deputy Assistant Director / CELIS Institute
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- Senior Advisor and Head of FDI Screening
Lars-Göran Larsson is Senior Advisor and Head of FDI Screening (Act.) at the Swedish Inspectorate of Strategic Products, ISP. It is the Swedish agency under the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, for export control and certain sanctions and embagoes. ISP is also Sweden´s Contact Point in the EU for FDI Screening under Regulation (EU) 2019/452, and is proposed by a government inquiry to be Sweden´s screening agency for Foreign Direct Investments, under consideration in preparation for a Government Bill with regard to a new Swedish FDI screening legislation.
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- Assistant
- Assistant Country Reporter Italy / CELIS Institute
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- Assistant Country Reporter Poland / CELIS Institute
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- Assistant
- Assistant Country Reporter Poland / CELIS Institute
Maria's extracurricular activities and involvement in different projects, such as the participation in the International Business and Trade Summer Law Program at Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, the participation in the London International Model United Nations, and PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management helped her to develop her interpersonal skills, initiative, legal knowledge, business acumen, and versatility. Additionally, her internship at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C. was an excellent chance to broaden her knowledge of international affairs, especially trade relations. Maria had the opportunity to work at international law firms, where she learned the specifics of international transactions, as well as investment processes. The previous work experience allowed her to learn many issues in the field of international legal regulations and market behaviors that take place in the business world.
Maria is the author of several publications including those analyzing the current legal regime of international investment law. Maria currently works on her Ph.D. thesis in international investment law, with a particular focus on investor-state disputes.
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- Assistant Country Reporter Portugal / CELIS Institute
Marta Vicente has a Law degree from the Coimbra Faculty of Law (2009), a master's degree in Administrative law (2011) and a Ph.D in Public law from the same institution (2021). Between 2012 and 2015, she worked as an advisor to the Portuguese Constitutional Court Judge's Office. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Porto Law School of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where she teaches Constitutional law, Energy Law and European Union Law, and a member of the Disciplinary Board of the Portuguese Football Federation. She is the author and co-author of several scientific works in the areas of Constitutional law, International Investment Law and International arbitration. Full CV at https://www.cienciavitae.pt/en/8915-ACBD-5585.
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- Executive Director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies
Matej Šimalčík is the Executive Director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, a think tank that focuses on foreign and security policy issues related to East Asia. Matej's research looks at China's economic and political presence and influence in Central Europe, elite relations, corrosive capital as well as the role of European legal instruments in mitigating risks posed by China.
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- Reporter
- Country Reporter United Kingdom / CELIS Institute
- Legal Adviser at HM Treasury
Nefeli Douma is CELIS Country Reporter for the United Kingdom.
Nefeli Douma is a Legal Adviser at HM Treasury, currently in Markets, Infrastructure and Other Financial Services, and previously in Trade and Negotiations. Her research interests focus on UK and EU financial regulation as well as on international trade (WTO) and investment law and international dispute resolution, with an emphasis on investment arbitration. Nefeli has previously held positions in EU institutions and agencies, such as the European Central Bank, the European Banking Authority and the Single Resolution Board.
Nefeli completed a Bachelor's Degree in Law (LL.B.) at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and holds Master Degrees (LL.M. and Master 2) from the School of International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London (CCLS) and Université Paris Sorbonne XIII.
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- Managing Editor
- Content & Country Editor / CELIS Institute
- Research Assistant at the Department of Law
Niels is also a research assistant at the Department of Law of the University of Southern Denmark, Odense and after completing his Master degree in Law in 2021.
His current interests are within EU law/politics and public international law, namely space law, cyber security and data protection, and last but definitely not least (of course) international investment law. In his Master dissertation, he addressed the question whether international investment law faces a challenge through the growing importance of the digital economy. Previously, as an intern researcher for the Embassy of Luxembourg in Copenhagen, he investigated the situation in the Arctic, including questions related to the law of the sea, and the legal and political aspects of the relationship between Denmark, Greenland and the European Union.
He holds a PhD in Political Science, specifically international politics, from Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, and majored in Modern and Contemporary History from Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
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- Reporter
- Country Reporter Czech Republic / CELIS Institute
- Deputy Head of the Political and Economic Section
Ondřej Svoboda is CELIS Country Reporter for Czech Republic.
Ondřej Svoboda serves as a Deputy Head of the Political and Economic Section of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tokyo, Japan. Before his posting he was a Deputy Head of the Unit of International Law of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic where he provided legal expertise in investment and trade law issues, including an involvement in preparatory works on the Czech investment screening mechanism, and led the Czech delegation at the OECD Investment Committee and the UNCITRAL Working Group III on the reform of ISDS. Furthermore, he acted as a Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Czech National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and lectured public international law and international economic law at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague where he also received his Ph.D. degree. He regularly publishes on various aspects of international economic law and the EU trade and investment policy, for instance in Journal of World Trade, Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law, European Foreign Affairs Review, Transnational Dispute Management and European Yearbook of International Economic Law.
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- Reporter
- Country Reporter Cyprus / CELIS Institute
Pantelis Christofides is CELIS Country Reporter for Cyprus.
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- Spür Is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Germany
Patricia studied law at the University of Bonn, Germany, and in Curitiba, Brazil. After qualifying as a lawyer, she completed her LL.M. studies at Queen Mary University of London in 2015. Since then, she has been working as a lawyer in the field of German and European public law. In her role and as a member of the international Energy and Utilities Sector Group at the law firm Bird & Bird, Patricia advises companies and the public sector on energy, regulatory, foreign trade, environmental and public procurement law. She is named by The Legal 500 in its 2020 Guide for Germany as a core lawyer in foreign trade law for Bird & Bird.
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- Reporter
- Country Reporter Switzerland / CELIS Institute
Phil Baumann is CELIS Country Reporter for Switzerland.
Phil Baumann studied law and economics at the University of St. Gallen (M.A. HSG 2011). During his studies he was able to spend exchange semesters in Sweden (Jönköping International Business School 2007) and China (China Europe International Business School 2009). After his admission to the bar in the Canton of Zurich, Phil Baumann worked between 2013 and 2016 at the law firm Schellenberg Wittmer AG in the Banking & Finance department and did a secondment at Credit Suisse AG. In 2017, he received a full scholarship (CUHK Master of Laws Global Scholarship for outstanding non-local students 2016) to obtain a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Economic Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK Dean's List 2016-17). After his return to Switzerland, Phil Baumann received his doctorate from the University of Lucerne (2019) with a dissertation focusing on competitive neutrality and state-owned enterprises. Following his doctorate, he worked as a senior research assistant and lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in the areas of public economic law and European law.
In July 2020, Phil Baumann joined the chair of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rütsche at the University of Lucerne as a senior research assistant and post-doctoral lecturer.
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- Senior Fellow / CELIS Institute
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- Assistant Country Reporter
- Counsel at Russian Arbitration Center
Rinat Gareev currently holds a position of case counsel at Russian Arbitration Center. He is a US-qualified attorney (admitted in New York), holds an LL.B. degree from the Higher School of Economics (Russia) and an LL.M. degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA).
Prior to joining the arbitral institution, Rinat has gained experience by working and training in leading arbitral institutions (AIAC (Malaysia), KCAB (South Korea), international organizations (UNCITRAL) and commercial firms in Russia, United Kingdom and the US.
Through Rinat's professional and educational experience, he has developed expertise in trade law, aviation law, arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution. He has published several papers in international and local journals on issues relating to cross-border dispute resolution and also provides expert opinions on various domestic and international law related issues.
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- Professor of International Law at Le Mans University
Sabrina Robert is Professor of International Law at Le Mans University. She is member of the research centre Themis-Um of Le Mans University and associated member of the Institute of Research in International and European Law of the Sorbonne Law School. She is a member of the French Branch of the International Law Association and…
Sophie Meunier is Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Co-Director of the EU Program at Princeton. She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations (Princeton University Press, 2005) and The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), winner of the 2002 France-Ameriques book…
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- Director CELIS Institute / Co - Founder CELIS Initiative
- Professor
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- Country Reporter Portugal / CELIS Institute
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- Country Reporter Australia / CELIS Institute
- Professor
Tania Voon is CELIS Country Reporter for Australia. Tania Voon is Professor and former Associate Dean (Research) at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. She was previously a Legal Officer in the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat. She has practised law with King & Wood Mallesons and the Australian Government Solicitor and taught law at…
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- Country Reporter Cyprus / CELIS Institute
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- Country Reporter Austria / CELIS Institute