Dr Dimitrios Kyriazis, Managing Partner

Dr. Dimitrios Kyriazis (DPhil, Oxford) is an Assistant Professor of European Union Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher in Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Research Fellow in Law at Northeastern University London, where from 2017 to 2020 he served as Head of the Law Faculty. He has also held the post of Lecturer in Law at Oxford University and Teaching Fellow in Competition Law at UCL. He is the Managing Partner of Kyriazis Law Offices. 

Dimitrios holds an LLB from the Athens Law School (graduated top of his class), an MJur from Oxford University (graduated top of his class), an MPhil with Distinction from Oxford and a DPhil (PhD) on state aid law, under the supervision of Professor Stephen Weatherill. He has received numerous awards and scholarships for his academic accomplishments, including the Clarendon Scholarship (Oxford’s most competitive scholarship), the Onassis Scholarship, the Clifford Chance Prize, the Light Senior Scholarship, and a PhD grant from the UK’s Chartered Institute of Taxation. He has worked as a lawyer in Athens and Brussels (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and is considered a leading expert in state aid law. Professor Kyriazis is also regularly involved in arbitration proceedings, both as an arbitrator and as counsel.