Dr. Christofi Despina
Associate Professor
| Rank / Employment Status: | Associate Professor / Full Time | |||||||||
| Department: | Business | |||||||||
| Scientific Domain: | Law | |||||||||
| Educational qualifications | ||||
| Degree | Year | Awarding Institution | Department | Thesis title |
| LLB (Hons) | 2013 | University of Leicester | School of Law | ‘The concept of Domestic violence and comparison of how it is treated by law in the UK and Cyprus’ |
| LLM in International Commercial Law | 2014 | University of Glasgow | School of Law | ‘An analysis of the role of banks in the financial crisis of 2007 in the UK and an examination of whether the reform measures of the UK can be effectively adopted in the case of Cyprus’ |
| Ph.D. in Law | 2017 | University of Central Lancashire | School of Law | ‘Effective judicial protection of bank depositors during the financial crisis and arbitration in an EU context’ |
| Employment history | |||||
| Period of employment | Employer | Location | Position | ||
| From | To | ||||
| 2023 | Present | City Unity College Nicosia | Nicosia | Associate Professor | |
| Dec-22 | Oct-23 | Unicaf | Larnaca | Programme Leader and Faculty | |
| Jan-21 | Dec-22 | Central Bank of Cyprus | Nicosia | Officer in Supervisory Governance Regulation, Supervision Division | |
| Sep-17 | Jan-21 | UCLan Cyprus | Larnaca | Lecturer in Financial Services Regulation and Alternative Dispute Resolution | |
| Sep-14 | Aug-17 | UCLan Cyprus | Larnaca | Research Scholar and Associate Lecturer | |
| Key refereed journal/ conference publications or monographs | |||||
| Year | Title | Other authors | Journal/Conference/Publisher | ||
| 1 | 2021 | Κυπριακό Τραπεζικό Δίκαιο | Αθανασίου Γ., Βουλγαράκης Κ., Γεωργίου Ρ., Κυριακίδης Ν., Ροδοσθένους Π. , Στρόππος X., Στυλιανίδης X., Χαραλάμπους B., Χατζηκώστας Z., Χρίστου Θ | Νομική Βιβλιοθήκη | |
| 2 | 2021 | ‘The Relationship between Allegations of Economic Crimes in Foreign Investments and the Adjudicative Power of Investor–State Tribunals’ | N/A | ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal | |
| 3 | 2022 | International Encyclopedia of Commercial and Economic Law – Cyprus | Stephanie Laulhé Shaelou and Nevi Agapiou | Kluwer Law International | |
| 4 | 2022 | Diversity of Enforcement Titles in Cross-border Debt Collection in the EU: National Report – Cyprus | Demetra Loizou | University of Maribor | |
| 5 | 2018 | ‘The Cypriot Banking Sector During the Financial Crisis and Its Reforms: An Examination in Light of the Case of the UK’ | N/A | The Cyprus Law Review | |
Staff Information
- +357 22 332333
- d.christofi@cityu.ac.cy
