Massalias 1, 106 80, Athens

210 3376 710 / fin-adr@hobis.gr

Director

Loukas Spanos

Loukas Spanos is an economist & accredited mediator. He is Director of the Hellenic Financial Mediation Center. Previously, he was Senior Advisor to the Board Chair of the National Bank of Greece, responsible for CSR & corporate governance, where he developed the 1st innovative CSR crowdfunding platform in Greece for NBG (act4greece).  He has over 8 years of experience in senior governmental & public affairs roles with substantial policy-making experience, including serving as Head of the Office of the Minister of Labor (2010/11) and Head of the Office of the Minister of Development (2009/10), where he led negotiations with the technical mission of the troika (EC-ECB-IMF) and was responsible for various structural reforms and legislatures.

He is Mentor in the Visa Innovation Program (Greece). Member of the Expert Committee of the Athens Exchange for the implementation of the European Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) & member of a Working Expert Group that proposed a corporate governance compliance methodology for Greek listed companies.

He has research experience in the fields of corporate governance, CSR & crowdfunding under various national and EU projects, coordinated by the Center of Financial Studies of the University of Athens. Recent work includes his contribution to the book titled: ‘Corporate Responsibility and Digital Communities’ published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. He is fellow of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff) of the Tokyo Foundation.