Eugenia (Venia) Papathanasopoulou
Lawyer, Supreme Court of Athens
A lawyer practicing before the Supreme Court of Athens, she currently serves as Director of Legal Affairs & Corporate Governance and Secretary to the Board at Athens International Airport (since September 2012). She is an Accredited Mediator (CEDR UK), certified by the Greek Ministry of Justice, and holds an LL.M. in Commercial and European Law from the University of Essex, UK. With over forty years of legal experience, she specializes in corporate law, restructuring, concessions, construction law, procurement, project finance, state aid, corporate governance and compliance, arbitration, and mediation. Her extensive background includes roles as General Counsel, Legal Advisor, and Company Secretary for various corporations across sectors such as energy, transportation, IT, gaming, media, capital markets, and sports—including positions with Public Power Corporation, Athens Olympic Games 2004 S.A., Athens Stock Exchange S.A., OPAP S.A., Press Institute S.A., and Quest Holdings S.A. She is highly experienced in complex negotiations, capital markets transactions, and managing large-scale infrastructure projects in international, multi-stakeholder environments.
She also currently serves as Vice President of the Board at Athens Airport Fuel Pipeline Company S.A. and as Independent Board Member and Chair of the Audit Committee at Alter Ego Media. From January 2020 to June 2023, she was Chair of the Board of the Greek National Opera. She has also held the roles of General Secretary (since 2010) and later Vice-President (since March 2016) of the Board of Transparency International-Greece, serving until 2020 and providing pro bono legal services. In addition, she is an active member of numerous Greek and international institutions and participates in the Legal Council of the Association of Public Companies & Entrepreneurship (SAE). Her recognitions include listings in the inaugural “GC Power List Greece and Cyprus 2018” as well as subsequent editions through 2025 by the International Independent Guide “The Legal 500” for Corporate Lawyers. She has also been nominated as ICC Hellas representative to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR since July 2022.