Curriculum Vitae
Stavros KATSIOS is Associate Professor of International Economic Relations and Economic Crime at the Department of Foreign Languages Translation and Interpreting (D.F.L.T.I.) of the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece and a lawyer, member of the Thessaloniki Bar since 1990 and the German Bar Association since 1996; he specialises in International Economic Law, European Community Law, money laundering and economic crime issues. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Commercial and International Economic Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1997), a postgraduate Diploma in European Law from the Europa-Institut of Saarland University, Germany (1991) and a university degree in Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1987). In 1983 he received a scholarship for attending courses in International Law and Policy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Since 1998, he lectures at the School of National Security of the Hellenic Police Academy in Athens. Since fall semester 1995 he teaches various law and economics courses at D.F.L.T.I. 1998-1999 he was an of the Program for Reforming the Law studies at the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki.
From 2002 to 2008 he served as Assistant Professor of International Economic Relations and International Organized Crime at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI) of the Ionian University. He was appointed as "Non Tax Revenues–Money Laundering Proceeds" at the Greek Ministry of Economy for drafting the new Greek Tax Law (2004); since 2004 he is the first Greek member of the USA-based "Association of Certified Ant-Money Laundering Specialists" (ACAMS).
