Speakers

Thomas Papadogiannis Varouchakis is an Assistant Professor in Commercial Law at the University of Nottingham, UK. Before joining Nottingham, he held teaching positions at University College London (UCL) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research focusses on financial law and financial regulation, with a particular interest in debt financing and the ways in which regulation and policy interact with, and shape, the debt markets in Europe. He has published extensively in the above areas, and particularly in the fields of securitisation and covered bonds, in academic and practitioner journals in the UK and Greece. He holds an LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, an LLM from the University of Cambridge, and has pursued a PhD at UCL. He was admitted to the Greek bar in 2019 and has worked as a lawyer for a Greek insurance firm, as well as a Greek law firm specialising in international arbitration.