CELIS-PEOPLE

Wessel Geursen is Senior Legal Adviser at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam specialised in EU and competition law. He is also an affiliated PhD-Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and researches the territorial scope of EU-law (for example in relation to the continental shelf, territorial and international waters, overseas countries & territories (OCT)…

Safar Safarli is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Azerbaijan. Safar Safarli has gotten his LL.B. degree from Baku State University Faculty of Law (LL.B. degree with honours) and his LL.M. degree from Uppsala University (Master’s Programme in Investment Treaty Arbitration). He is currently pursuing legal internship at DER Juridik Stockholm. Safar’s LL.M. study and internship period…

Argha Kumar Jena is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for India. Dr. Argha Kumar Jena, LL.M. (Berlin), Principal Associate at DMD Advocates, is an Indian attorney specializing in international contracts, contract related litigation dispute resolution and international economic law with nearly a decade’s experience. Since being admitted to the Bar Council of India, he has worked with…

Charles Ho Wang Mak is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for China. Charles Ho Wang Mak is a Lecturer in Law at Robert Gordon University, a PhD Candidate in law at the University of Glasgow, a Fellow at the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum, a Fellow of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law at the City…

Rinat Gareev is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Russia. Rinat Gareev currently holds a position of case counsel at Russian Arbitration Center. He is a US-qualified attorney (admitted in New York), holds an LL.B. degree from the Higher School of Economics (Russia) and an LL.M. degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). Prior to joining the…

Anton Tugushev is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Russia. Anton Tugushev is a Russian qualified lawyer and holds two PhD degrees from Russian Customs Academy and City University of Hong Kong. Anton worked in the Ministry of the Development of the Russian Far East, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and the International Centre for the Settlement…

Agnieszka Nosowicz is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for France. Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2019, Agnieszka Nosowicz is an associate within the International Trade and Regulation practice group of Gide Loyrette Nouel in Brussels. Her expertise is focused on EU and international trade law, particularly trade defence proceedings (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard investigations). Agnieszka regularly…

Janosch Wiesenthal currently serves as Deputy Assistant Director at CELIS Institute. He co-founded the Institute’s early-career scholars’ and practitioners’ network on the law and practice of economic warfare (CELIS NOW) and the CELIS Blog together with Jonas Fechter. Before, Janosch held the position of Managing Editor Content & Country. Janosch is a PhD candidate currently working…

Thijs De Cuyper is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Belgium. Thijs De Cuyper is a doctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, where he is part of the Institute for Commercial- and Insolvency Law. He obtained a master’s degree from the same university with a specialization in economic, international and European law. After…

Linda Lorenzon is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Italy. She is a young law practitioner and collaborates with an Italian and international law firm based in Milan, where she mainly deals with FDI regulation, corporate and M&A matters. She holds a LL.M. (laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza) from the University of Trento (Italy), European, comparative and Transnational…

Rauca Coman is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Romania. Raluca is a senior lawyer specialised in the banking and finance sector, having worked with leading domestic and international clients on a variety of complex finance transactions. Her extensive track record includes advising banks, international financial institutions, private equity sponsors and corporations in high-profile domestic and international…

Maria Fanou is CELIS Country Reporter for Greece. Dr Maria Fanou is a Référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Her research interests focus on, international economic law (esp. international investment law), international dispute resolution (esp. international arbitration), and EU law. Maria is also a Postdoctoral Researcher and an Assistant Editor of the…

Thomas Papadopoulos is CELIS Country Reporter for Cyprus. Thomas Papadopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Business Law at the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus. He received his DPhil in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK (2010). He received a degree of Magister Juris-MJur (2006) and a degree of MPhil…

Martin Svec is CELIS Country Reporter for Czech Republic. Martin Svec is a Head of the Department of Energy Law and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University (Czech Republic). His extensive experience in research has centred around international law, EU law, energy law,…

Hannes Lenk is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Sweden. Hannes Lenk is Assistant Professor in Law at Aarhus University, Denmark, and  Researcher at both the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies and Gothenburg University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in law from Gothenburg University, Sweden and obtained an LLM in European Law from Leiden University, the Netherlands.…

Patricia Bendlin Spür is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Germany. Patricia studied law at the University of Bonn, Germany, and in Curitiba, Brazil. After qualifying as a lawyer, she completed her LL.M. studies at Queen Mary University of London in 2015. Since then, she has been working as a lawyer in the field of German and…

Federico Riganti is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Italy. Federico Riganti obtained his Master Degree in Law – summa cum laude – at the University of Turin in 2010, discussing a thesis on the Islamic Finance sector. In 2016, he was awarded with a Ph.D. in Company Law and Capital Market Regulations at the University of…

Csongor István Nagy is CELIS Country Reporter for Hungary. Csongor István Nagy is professor of law at and the head of the Department of Private International Law at the University of Szeged and research chair at the Center for Social Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network. He is recurrent visiting professor at the Central European…

Bálint Kovács is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Hungary. Bálint KOVÁCS, LL.M., is a PhD candidate at the Marton Géza Doctoral School of Legal Studies at Debrecen University, Hungary. He is currently working full time as a researcher at the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, Department of Private Law in Budapest, Hungary and teaches International…

Maria Kalinowska is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Poland. Maria currently practices law as an Associate in the M&A/corporate department at one of the law firms in Warsaw. She completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree at The Catholic University of America – Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. She received a Master of Law…

Andrea Sacco Ginevri is CELIS Country Reporter for Italy. Andrea Sacco Ginevri is Full Professor of Economic Law at Uninettuno University of Rome.   He got a Ph.D. in Law and Economics at Roma Tre University of Rome and an LL.M at Fordham University School of Law. He was visiting scholar at Columbia University Law School.   He…

Pantelis Christofides is CELIS Country Reporter for Cyprus. Pantelis Christofides, a registered and practicing Advocate in the Republic of Cyprus, a Director of L. PAPAPHILIPPOU & CO LLC Advocates and Legal Consultants based in Nicosia, and the Head of the European Union and Regulatory Law practice group as well as a Member of Corporate & Commercial…

Phil Baumann is CELIS Country Reporter for Switzerland. Phil Baumann studied law and economics at the University of St. Gallen (M.A. HSG 2011). During his studies he was able to spend exchange semesters in Sweden (Jönköping International Business School 2007) and China (China Europe International Business School 2009). After his admission to the bar in the…

Prof. Dr. Christoph Herrmann, LL.M. (London) is CELIS Regional Director for Germany – Austria – Switzerland – Liechtenstein and CELIS Country Reporter for Germany. Professor Herrmann studied Law and some Economics (with a focus on banking and finance) at the University of Bayreuth (1st State Examination, Germany, 1999) and European and International Economic Law at the…