Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou

Ms. Avgerinopoulou is co-founder and the President of the EILST since 2004. She serves as the overall coordinator of all the sectors of the EILST. She specializes in legal and policy aspects of environmental protection, including climate change, international organizations and transatlantic cooperation in scientific and technologal issues.

Ms. Avgerinopoulou is serving as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament "at large" (State Deputy) as of October 4, 2009. Dionysia is also an international lawer. She holds law degrees from the Faculty of Law of the Kapodestrian University in Athens, Greece and the Georgetown Law Center, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. and is currenlty a doctoral candidate at Columbia University School of Law, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. She specializes in Environmental Law, including Climate Change Law, International Law, European Law and Alternative Dispute Settlement (Mediation, Conciliation and Arbitration.)

She has previously worked, among others, at the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels, the European Commission Delegation to the United Nations and the Center on Environmental and Land Use Law of the New York University School of Law in New York, the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy in New Haven, and the International and Foreign Law Institute in Athens. She runs her law office in Athens, Greece. She is the author of several articles and has presented her work on several international conferences. She speaks Greek, English, French and German.

Dionysia puts a great value on the pro bono aspect of the work of the EILST and, among others, has pro bono led an initiative for an environmental crisis management and reconstruction plan for a part of the devastated areas on Peloponnese, Greece, after the wild fires of August 2007. Dionysia has also taken a series of initiatives for international institution building, such as for the establishment of a Climate Change Center for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Her work has been acknowledged by a series of awards, honours and distinctions.

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Press

• Initiating

Short Speech by Ms. Avgerinopoulou on the Occassion of a Photo-Exhibition for Fund-Raising Purpose in Brussels in Support of the Devastated by the Wildfires Villages in South Greece, Brussels, May 2008

Taking the Initiative for the Establishment of an International Climate Change Center, Samos, Greece, 2007

Steun voor Griekse Zacharo

"Steun voor Griekse Zacharo", article in Brussel Deze Week, by Georges Tonla Briquet, 2008

• Awards and Nominations

Recipient of the International "Goddess Artemis" Award for her contribution to transatlantic relations and the environmental protection by the Euro-American Women's Council [1]

Tribute by the Hellenic Post on the occassion of the reception of the International Goddess Artemis Award - Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou has been depicted on a collective stamp - June 2009.

Recipient of an Award by the Mayor of Athens, Greece, for her contribution to issues of Hellenism abroad, June 2009.

The nomination of Ms. Avgerinopoulou for the candidancy of Greece for the Women of Europe 2008 Award by Ms. Basakali, Athens, Greece, 2008

Speech by Ms. Avgerinopoulou on the occassion of her candidancy for the Women of Europe 2008 Award Athens, Greece, 2008

• Volunteering

Assisting the Sustainable Development of her Hometown after the Wildfires of August 2007 - "Dagbladet", Norwegian newspaper,May 1st, 2008, by Leiv Gunnar Lie

"Dagbladet", Part II

A Note on Compassion and Hope, New York, 2005

Representing Greeks Abroad for Issues of Hellenism - The Cyprus case, New York, 2005

• Articles / Interviews

The Environmental Priorities of the Obama Administration in the U.S.A.: http://www.apogevmatini.gr/econews/?p=77 (in Greek)

Interview for ECOTEC An Interview for ECOTEC, April 2009 Part II Part III (in Greek)

Academic Publications

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Technology-enforcing Legislation: The Climate Change Challenge to Aviation Sector (work in progress);

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Law-making Powers of Expert Bodies in International Environmental Arrangements (work in progress);

• Michael Gerrard and Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, The Future of Climate Change Law, article in a book to be published by the United Nations University, forthcoming 2010;

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, A Challenge for the New Secretary General: Reorganizing the UN to Effectively Combat Climate Change, in ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY (A. Krishna Kumari ed., ICFAI University Press, 2007);

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Approximation of European Environmental Criminal Laws: Within or Beyond the European Community Competence?, 13 Colum. J. Eur. Law 3 (2007);

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, The Role of the International Judiciary to the Settlement of International Environmental Disputes and Alternative Proposals in ENVIRONMENTAL JURISPRUDENCE – COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES (A. Krishna Kumari ed., ICFAI University Press, 2006), p. 32;

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Implementation and Compliance of Multilateral Environmental Agreements – The New EC Generalized System of Preference Scheme, 12 Colum. J. Eur. L. 3, 827 (2006);

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, The New EC Directive on Wastes, 12(2) Colum. J. Eur. Law 639 (2006);

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, The Law-making Process at the International Seabed Authority as a Limitation to Effective Environmental Management, 3 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 565, (2005);

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, The Rise of Global Environmental Administrative Law – Improving Implementation and Compliance through the Means of Global Governance, Conference Proceedings, Seventh International Conference on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE), vol. 1, (2005), p. 131-139;

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Environment and Development in Greece – a New Perspective for the Industry and Companies, p. 15, Kerkyra Publ., Greece, First Prize at the 22nd Competition for Students organized by the European Commission and Oikonomiki Epitheorisi, a monthly economic review (2000) (in Greek.)

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, A Roadmap to the Era of Global Environmental Wisdom, 15 Geo. Int’l Envtl L. Rev., 887 (2003) (reviewing GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: OPTIONS & OPPORTUNITIES, (Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Daniel C. Esty & Maria H. Ivanova eds., Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 2002));

• Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, 55 Revue Hellenique de Droit International (RHDI) , 640 (2002) (reviewing DISPUTE SETTLEMENT IN PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW – TEXTS AND MATERIALS (Oellers-Frahm - Zimmermann eds., Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Springer Publ., 2nd ed., 2254 pp. (2001)