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Ass. Professor Ioannis N. Androulakis

  • Ioannis is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure, an Alexander Onassis Foundation Scholar (Universities of Göttingen and Halle-Wittenberg), a Fritz Thyssen Foundation Scholar (University of Munich), an OeAD Scholar (University of Vienna), an IVLP alumnus (US), and a visiting Professor at the University of Augsburg. He has more than 20 years of academic and research experience on issues of criminal law and criminal procedure, including criminal policy analysis, assessing the contents, impact and effectiveness of criminal law legislation, and examining its transnational implementation.
  • He is a practicing criminal lawyer since 1997 and is the current principal of Androulakis & Associates, an Athens-based law firm specialized in all aspects of criminal law and litigation, with significant expertise in the fields of commercial and financial crime.
  • Ioannis is the President of the Conference of the Parties to the Council of Europe Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism (CETS 198), the national representative to the Implementation Review Group of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), as well as the head of the delegation of the Hellenic Ministry of Justice to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). He was Co-President of the DROIPEN group at the Council of the EU, and member of numerous committees, expert groups and evaluation mechanisms, including the Council of Europe ad hoc Group on Transnational Organized Crime, the OECD Working Group on Bribery, the ARO Platform Subgroups, and the EU Second Opinion Network on the EU Anti-Corruption Report.
  • At the national level he was an Advisor to the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights and the President of the Legislative Committee of the current Greek AML/CFT Law (Law 4557/2018), as well as a member of numerous other legislative committees and working groups, such as the ones concerning the amendment of tax offences, the incorporation of the Directives and Framework Decisions related to the freezing and confiscation of instrumentalities and proceeds of crime in the European Union, the implementation of the UNTOC, and the revision of anti-corruption legislation. Additionally, he has served as a Deputy Member of the Board of Directors of the Fund for the Financing of Court Buildings, and a Deputy Member of the Central Scientific Council of Prisons.
  • His works include “Criteria of a Fair Criminal Trial according to Article 6 of the ECHR”, Athens 2000; “The Globalization of the Fight against Corruption”, Baden-Baden 2007; “Bid-rigging and Criminal Law”, Athens 2008; “The execution of judicial deportation and the lifting of its consequences”, Athens 2017, and “The State of Implementation of the UNCAC”, N.Y. 2015, 2nd ed. 2017, a study commissioned by the UNODC.