Antigoni Vafeidou is a Supreme Court Lawyer and Deputy Director of
Regulatory Compliance at the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network
Operator (HEDNO).
She has also served as special advisor to the Minister of Environment and
Energy with duties of participation in various meetings with the EU institutions
for the evaluation, parliamentary control with report-submissions on the
activities of the Minister and the Government. In addition to the legal field, she
also held critical management positions such as Supervisor of the Bank of
Greece on Insurance Liquidations, and then as Director of Operational
Coordination and Head of Legal Affairs for Europe at a New York Stock
Exchange (NASDAQ) listed company.
In Brussels, she was active in European lobbying as an expert policy advisor
in consultations on European Directives and Regulations on issues relating to
consumer protection in the field of trading and investment products.
As a special associate lecturer at the Hellenic Bankers' Association, she has
been responsible for teaching seminars on Competition Law as well as
seminars on the management of all types of red loans (consumer, business,
etc.). At the same time, she has been a lecturer and seminar instructor with
the Law Library for seminars on the protection of the consumer-borrower from
unfair banking practices.
For 17 years, she has been practicing law mainly in corporate, commercial
and economic criminal law fields as founder and managing partner of
Antigoni Vafeidou and Associates Law Firm.
In the context of her involvement in politics, she frequently writes articles on
issues concerning international and domestic political current affairs and has
participated with public statements in political and social events and fora.
She is a PhD candidate in International Commercial Arbitration and holds her
first Master's degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business
in International and European Economic Studies (M.Sc.-AUEB) and her
second Master's degree in Competition Law from University College London
(LLM-UCL).