Speakers

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  Nikolaos Maghioros Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  

  Nikolaos Maghioros

  Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  Professor Nikolaos Maghioros serves as Vice Rector for Academic Affairs and Development at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he is responsible for shaping academic strategy, advancing curriculum development, promoting institutional modernisation, and ensuring alignment with European Higher Education policies. As President of the University’s Quality Assurance Unit, he oversees both internal and external evaluation processes, accreditation procedures, and compliance with national and European regulatory frameworks.

  He is Professor of Canon and Ecclesiastical Law at the University’s School of Theology. He studied Theology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed his postgraduate and doctoral studies at the School of Canon Law of the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, supported by a scholarship from the Catholic Committee for Cultural Collaboration.

  Professor Maghioros has organised and participated in numerous international conferences, research initiatives, and summer schools focusing on Christian dialogue, interreligious communication, religion–state relations, human rights, the interconnection between religion, culture, and sustainable development, and the protection of religious and cultural heritage.

  He has previously served as Head of the School of Theology and as Chairman of the Committee for European Educational Programmes at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2020, he has been Director of the Graduate Programme Religion, Geopolitics and International Security.

  He is a founding member of the International Consortium for Law and Religious Studies and a member of the international expert group “Christian Law Panel of Experts: An Ecumenical Initiative,” the International Association of Canon Law Experts, and the Board of Directors of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches.

  Professor Maghioros has represented the Church of Greece at the Council of European Churches as a member of the Working Group on EU legislation and policy. He also served on the Church of Greece Committee for the Study and Monitoring of the Revision of the Framework of Church–State Relations. He is currently a member of the Synodal Committee on Ecclesiastical Education and Training of the Clergy and of the Supervisory Council for Ecclesiastical Education.

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  Panayotis Glavinis Professor of International Economic Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
  

  Panayotis Glavinis

  Professor of International Economic Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

  Panayotis Glavinis is Professor of International Economic Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He graduated in 1986 from the same Faculty before studying in France, at Paris 2 University, where he completed his PhD and received his habilitation à diriger des recherches. He teaches International Trade Law, Foreign Investment Law, Energy Law, Finance Law and International Business Transactions. His most recent book on “Power Redistribution Mechanisms in the International Economic System”, published by Papazisis Publications, was awarded the prize of the Academy of Athens on 19.12.2019. From 2004 to 2018, he was a member of the Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris). From 1.10.2011 to 19.6.2012, he served as Legal Adviser to the Prime Minister of Greece at the peak of the Greek debt crisis. From 2019 to 2021, he served as Chairman of the Legal Committee of the University of Thessaloniki and from 2020 to 2024, as Vice President of the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). Since Sept. 2021, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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  Peter Petkoff Associate Professor, Tutorial Law Fellow and Director of the Centre for Law and Religion, a research centre based at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion
  

  Peter Petkoff

  Associate Professor, Tutorial Law Fellow and Director of the Centre for Law and Religion, a research centre based at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion

  Peter Petkoff is Associate Professor, Tutorial Law Fellow and Director of the Centre for Law and Religion, a research centre based at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, and Managing Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. He is Legal Consultant on Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression for the Representative on Freedom of the Media at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Peter is involved in cutting edge research on the relationship between religion and politics and law and religion. In his capacity as Director of the Centre for Law and Religion at Regent’s Park College he brings together lawyers, policy makers, theologians, philosophers, social and political scientists and aims to develop innovative interdisciplinary strategies for studying law, religion and international relations from legal and theological perspectives.

  He is currently writing a book for Oxford University Press on Holy Sites under International Law.

  Through his work, he engages with academics, policy makers, lawyers, religious leaders and think tanks working in the field of religion and public life. In addition his work has impact on policy makers and on the ways religious communities articulate their public self-perception and their attitude to law, civic values, secularism and to their own internal normative systems. He belongs to several international research networks which study the broader questions of law and religion and religion and politics. He has extensive contacts with human rights lawyers as well as with Jewish, Islamic and Christian lawyers working in this area.

  Peter Petkoff has joined Oxford from Brunel University London where as a Reader at the School of Law he was involved in developing an innovative programme in Intellectual Property Practice and Management for aspiring Patent and Trade Mark attorneys and modules on Philosophical Foundations of Intellectual Property, Comparative and European Media Law and Regulation and International Cultural Heritage Law.

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  Federico Ferretti Associate Professor of Law and Financial Markets, University of Bologna
  

  Federico Ferretti

  Associate Professor of Law and Financial Markets, University of Bologna

  Professor of Economic Law and Financial Markets at the University of Bologna since October 2018. His research interests are mainly in EU market law, in particular from the perspective of consumers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). His current research focuses on the protection of users of financial services, economic and social inclusion, and digital markets.

  Awarded the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Digital Market Law in 2022.

  Winner of the 2019 call of a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ‘Consumers and SMEs in the Digital Single Market’.

  Member of the Financial Services User Group (FSUG) of the European Commission, advising in the preparation of legislation or policy initiatives which affect the users of financial services, providing insight, opinion and advice concerning the practical implementation of such policies, proactively seeking to identify key financial services issues which affect users of financial services, and liaising with and providing information to financial services user representatives and representative bodies at the European Union and national level.

  Member of the Consumer Policy Advisory Group (CPAG) of the European Commission. As part of a new model of partnership between the Commission, Member States and other stakeholders, the CPAG advises the Commission on the implementation as well as the monitoring of the European consumer agenda.
  Sept. 2007 – Oct. 2018 Senior Lecturer in Law (formerly Lecturer), Brunel Law School, Brunel University London, UK.

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  Dimitrios Kyriazis Assistant Professor of European Union Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  

  Dimitrios Kyriazis

  Assistant Professor of European Union Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  Dr. Dimitrios Kyriazis is an Assistant Professor of European Union Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds an LLB from the Athens Law School, a Magister Juris (LLM) from Oxford University, an Mphil in Law from Oxford University and a DPhil (PhD) in EU Law from Oxford University. 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 Law at UCL. He has published two monographs, as well as numerous articles in Greek and international legal journals on questions of EU and public law.