CELIS-PEOPLE

Roland M. Stein serves as Director at the CELIS Institute since 2024; previously he was Deputy Director since 2023. He focuses on CFIS and CELIS Training. He is, furthermore, an international trade law expert and one of the founding partners of the leading law boutique BLOMSTEIN in Berlin, Germany. He is regularly ranked as one…

Jesús García Aparicio is CELIS Country Reporter for Spain. Jesús G. Aparicio is a senior associate at CUATRECASAS, specialized in corporate law, corporate governance, M&A transactions, joint ventures and restructuring processes. He has an extensive experience advising companies on the application and consequences of the Spanish foreign investment regime in strategic sectors, which includes, among others,…

Lena Hornkohl serves as Advisor  at the CELIS Institute; previously she was Director since 2024 and Deputy Director since 2023. She studied law in Heidelberg and Uppsala. After obtaining her first state exam in 2014, she completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe (with stages, inter alia, at the European Commission) and…

Julien Cazala is CELIS Country Reporter for France. Julien Cazala is Professor of public law at the Faculty of Law of the University Sorbonne Paris Nord (France). He holds a Ph.D. in public international law from University Paris Panthéon-Assas. He is the author of numerous writings in many areas of public international law. He has been…

Georgiana Bădescu is CELIS Country Reporter for Romania. Georgiana Bădescu is a partner with Schoenherr, a leading regional law firm in Central and Eastern Europe/ South-Eastern Europe. Georgiana heads the firm’s competition, EU & foreign trade practice group and data protection team in Romania. She is an experienced EU & competition lawyer, with a strong track…

Cristiana Manea is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Romania. Cristiana Manea is a senior attorney at law at Schoenherr Romania, where she specialises in competition, EU & foreign trade law. She assists on the full range of competition matters, including investigations and sector inquiries conducted by the Romanian competition regulator, merger clearance procedures, FDI screening, audit…

Christos Karetsos is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for the United Kingdom. Christos Karetsos is a PhD Candidate at City, University of London. His research is funded through the City Law School Doctoral Studentship. Christos’s thesis is titled ‘Navigating the Foreign Investment Control Landscape: FDI screening in the EU, US and the UK’. His thesis investigates the…

Charlotte Hafstad is CELIS Country Reporter for Norway. Charlotte Hafstad is an associate lawyer at Bing Hodneland business law firm, and currently writes her PhD in screening of foreign direct investments at the University of Oslo, faculty of law. The PhD is part of the COINS-Reasearch project (Consequences of Investments for National Security) at the Norwegian…

Galo Marquez is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Mexico. Galo Marquez is a graduate from Tec de Monterrey Law School, with post graduate studies in international commercial and investment arbitration. He is also part of the International Commercial and Investment Arbitration Practice at Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, S.C. Galo’s academic research has been recognized…

Shokhrukh Bekmurzaev is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Uzbekistan. Shokhrukh obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Jurisprudence from Tashkent State University of Law and LL.M. degree in International Business Law from Ghent University. He had worked in banking sector almost four years before starting his LL.M. which is fully funded by Uzbekistan Government Scholarship. Furthermore, Shokhrukh…

Andrea Gemmi is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Italy. Andrea graduated cum laude at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2016 discussing a comparative thesis on Italian, French and British Public Law. Since 2018 he has been teaching assistant to the Administrative Law course at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In the…

Iliana Boycheva is CELIS Country Reporter for Bulgaria. Iliana studied law at Sofia University. During her legal education, she was able to be part of an exchange program in Zagreb, Croatia, where she focused mainly on EU law. After finishing her LL.M., she completed a master’s in International Relations, specialised in the Protection of Fundamental…

Paula Arroyo is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Spain. Paula Arroyo is an associate at B. Cremades y Asociados, one of the world’s leading firms in investment protection arbitration, as well as in international commercial arbitration. Prior to joining B. Cremades y Asociados, Paula worked as an administrator at the Court of Justice of the…

Luka Marosiuk is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Serbia. Luka is a Serbian attorney at law, working in cooperation with NSTLAW, a Law firm from Belgrade. Luka acts for local and international clients, predominately assisting Litigation, Arbitration, Corporate and M&A. He advises and represents clients in corporate and commercial disputes before the Serbian courts and…

Jonas Fechter currently serves as Programme Associate at CELIS Institute. He is a PhD-candidate and research assistant at the University of Münster. In his research, he focuses on current developments in European and German investment screening law. Additionally, he teaches constitutional and administrative law at the faculty of law in Münster. Jonas holds an LL.B…

Matej Šimalčík is CELIS Country Reporter for Slovakia. Matej Šimalčík is the Executive Director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, a think tank that focuses on foreign and security policy issues related to East Asia. Matej’s research looks at China’s economic and political presence and influence in Central Europe, elite relations, corrosive capital…

Lars-Göran Larsson is Senior Advisor and Head of FDI Screening (Act.) at the Swedish Inspectorate of Strategic Products, ISP. It is the Swedish agency under the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, for export control and certain sanctions and embagoes. ISP is also Sweden´s Contact Point in the EU for FDI Screening under Regulation (EU) 2019/452, and…

Francesca Ghiretti covers EU-China relations with a focus on economic security and China’s global investments. Before joining MERICS, she worked as a Research Fellow Asia at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome leading a project on the Belt and Road Initiative in Italy. Previously, she also worked as a geopolitical analyst for CQS, a…

Tania Voon is CELIS Country Reporter for Australia. Tania Voon is Professor and former Associate Dean (Research) at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. She was previously a Legal Officer in the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat. She has practised law with King & Wood Mallesons and the Australian Government Solicitor and taught law at…

Nefeli Douma is CELIS Country Reporter for the United Kingdom. Nefeli Douma is a Legal Adviser at HM Treasury, currently in Markets, Infrastructure and Other Financial Services, and previously in Trade and Negotiations.  Her research interests focus on UK and EU financial regulation as well as on international trade (WTO) and investment law and international dispute…