Short Biographical Note

Stavros KATSIOS is Professor of International Economic Relations and International Economic Crime at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and Director of the Laboratory for Geocultural Analyses (Geolab), Chair Holder of the UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage and Cultural Heritage-related Activities at the Ionian University, Coordinator of the Yellow Tourism Research Consortium and Deputy Head of the Department of Foreign Languages Translation and Interpreting. He has studied law at the “Albertus Magnus” University, Cologne, Germany, at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA (scholarship for attending courses in International Law and Policy) and at the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a university degree in Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1987), a postgraduate Diploma in European Law from the “Europa-Institute” of Saarland University, Germany (1991) and a Ph.D. degree in Commercial and International Economic Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1997).

December 2020 he was appointed as representative of the Ionian University at the international University Network Scholars at Risk (SAR) and member of the Supervising Body for Certified Translators at the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His research is focused on International Economic Law and Economic Crime (e.g. money laundering, corruption, criminal threats to cultural heritage, etc). He served (from 2011 to 2015) as elected Vice Rector for Economic Management and Development of the Ionian. 2004 he was appointed by the Minister of Economics as Member of the Working Group “Non Tax Revenues–Money Laundering Proceeds” at the Greek Ministry of Economy for drafting the Greek Tax Law. 2016 he was appointed by the Minister of Finance as the co-head (WG National Vulnerability) of the National Risk Assessment Experts’ (NRA) Committee for the FATF Mutual Evaluation Report of Greece (on contract by the World Bank from December 2016 to April 2019). He is a lawyer, member of the Thessaloniki Bar since 1990 and of the German Bar Association (DAV) since 1996.

Since 2002 he teaches various law and economics courses at the Ionian University (D.F.L.T.I.) and lectured on Anti-Money Laundering policies at the Hellenic Banking Institute of the Hellenic Bank Association in Athens (2010-2014). Since 2004 he is academic member of the “Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists” (ACAMS). Since 2009 he is a frequent invited speaker at the International Symposium of Economic Crime held annually at Jesus College, Cambridge University, UK. He has been lecturing on Economic Crimes/Money Laundering, Police Academy, School of National Security (1998-2005). He is expert contributor for the Chapter Greece of the LexisNexis Platform on Global Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing and author of books and numerous scientific articles.

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