Haris Pamboukis

Finally, he has been awarded with the Honorary Distinction “Légion d’honneur - commandeur” by the President of the French Republic.

Since 2014, he has been responsible for the supervision and guidance of a group of undergraduate students of the Athens Law School, which participated in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2015 (https://vismoot.pace.edu/), a university competition on international commercial arbitration held in Vienna (27 March- 2 April 2015), and which was ranked between the positions 9-16, among 299 universities that participated from all around the world.

Today, he is considered as one of the most pre-eminent lawyers in international litigation, and has founded the law firm PMN-Pamboukis – Maravelis- Nikolaidis & Associates (Alpha Law), a boutique law firm specializing in international transactions and international arbitration.

In June 2011, he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Mercantile Shipping and suggested the recovery of the Ministry of Mercantile, a proposal that was not accepted. He resigned from his post for this reason and due to broader disagreement, on 25 August 2011.

He also suggested the creation of a distinguished authority of the Prime Minister, a type of a Ministry belonging to the Prime Minister, a plan that was never completed, and a complete plan on continuous governance. During the government reshuffle in September 2010, his responsibilities focused on attracting foreign strategic investments, without having any substantive responsibilities as to their implementation.

In October 2009, he was appointed as Minister of State in the government of George Papandreou. During that period, he was considered as the mind behind the geopolitical plan to make an opening to the BRIC countries (Russia, China), the Arab world and Israel 2010.

In 2003, he taught a course at the Hague Academy of International Law, under the title “Droit international privé holistique: droit uniforme et droit international privé”, which was published in the essays of the Hague Academy of International Law in 2008.

He is a lawyer licensed to practice law before the Supreme Court and has served as scientific Supervisor at the Athens Bar Association Committee on modernization of the legal profession. Furthermore, he has appeared as a lawyer before the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and the Court of the European Union (Luxembourg), while he has also served as arbitrator in many institutional arbitrations (ICC, LCIA) and ad hoc arbitrations. He has been elected as member of the Unidroit (1998, Rome), as well as of many national and foreign scientific institutions and legal for a, while he has actively participated in many conferences. He is the representative of the Hellenic Republic in the Hague International Conference, the UNICITRAL.

He has served as special counsel to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1996-1997) and subsequently as General Secretary of Administration and Organisation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1999—2000), under the Prime Minister, George Papandreou. During that period (1999) he participated in the preparation of the Elsinki (which was very important for the Greek- Turkish relations) and the Copenhagen Conference, where the unconditional admission of Cyprus in the EU was decided.

In 1991, he was unanimously elected as lecturer at the Athens Law School and since October 2009, upon unanimous election, he has been a Professor of Private International Law and International Business Transactions at the Athens Law School.

He studied law in Paris (Paris I- Panthéon - Sorbonne) from where he also obtained a PhD with honors in 1990 (Docteur d'Etat en droit). His thesis under the title “L 'acte public étranger en droit international privé”, Lagarde Bibliothèque de Droit Privé, t.219, Paris (1987), was published in 1993 in Librairie de Droit et de la Jurisprudence, has earned several national and international awards, and has been cited internationally in the field of private international law.

Haris Pamboukis was born in Athens in 1958 and has two children.

Haris Pamboukis (Athens, 29/6/1958) is a Greek Professor of private international law and international business transactions at the Athens School of Law, lawyer licensed to practice law before the Supreme Court and ex Minister of State (and for a short period, Deputy Minister of Development) in the government of George Papandreou (2009-2011). He is the author of numerous articles in Greek, English and French, while he has published several legal monographies and political essays.