Speaker Bio

Dr. Nikolas Farantouris Member of the European Parliament (2024-2029). Member of the European Parliament's Committees on:  Budgets (BUDG)  Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI)  Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) as a Coordinator  Security and Defence (SEDE) Member of the EU-US Parliamentary Delegation. Member of the EU- African States Parliamentary Delegation. Professor at the Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus Greece. Jean Monnet Chair in European & Energy Law. Founder and director of the international Master’s Program in Energy. Attorney at law since 2001. He studied law at the University of Athens and completed a Master’s degree (MJur) in European and Comparative Law and a Doctorate (DPhil) in European Law, both at the University of Oxford. He has held posts as adjunct professor, research associate or visiting professor in top Universities in the US and Europe including NYU, Rotterdam, Dresden, Pqris, Oxford et al. He has worked in Goldman Sachs’ Legal & Compliance Department in London and in Norton Rose LLP Competition & EU Law Department in London, Brussels and Athens, where he handled major antitrust, merger control and state aid cases in the banking, energy and transport sectors, before national and international authorities, the EU Commission and the European Court of Justice. He has also gained experience as a Board member of Hellenic Competition Commission and a member of the Board of Directors, General Counsel and Chairman of the Board of the Public Gas Corporation of Greece (DEPA) S.A. (2019-2019) and Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee of EUROGAS, the association of 45 energy companies in Europe (2016-2019). He is a member of the Energy Committee of the Academy of Athens. Married, 3 children.