Academic Studies

PhD ῾Water as an economic good in public international law: Effects in the environment and human rights’ (Published in Greek under the title: Water in Public International Law)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law

LLM in Public International Law
The London School of Economics and Political Science, Faculty of Law

LLM ῾Legal International Studies’, specialization in Public International Law
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law

European Master of Business Administration in Marketing
ESCEM School of Business and Management

Postgraduate Certificate in European Higher Legal Studies
University of Leicester, Faculty of Law

LLB
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Law

Research programmes

2015 until today
Academic fellow
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens Public International Law Center

2017-2019
National expert in the research ‘Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2017’
World Bank

2015-2017
National expert in the research ‘Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2019’
World Bank

01 August 2015 - 31 August 2015
Scientific researcher in the programme ‘Anticorruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption (ANTICORRP) FP7’
European Commission, Budapest Corvinus University & the European University Institute

Professional experience

12 January 2021 until today
Legal Advisor
Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, Deputy Minister’s cabinet

02 August 2019 – 12 January 2021
Legal Advisor
Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, Minister’s cabinet

15 May 2015 – 17 July 2019
Legal Advisor
Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, Cabinet of the Special Secretary for Water

10 August 2012 – 22 April 2015
Legal Advisor
Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, Cabinet of the Special Secretary for Water

10 March 2010 – 10 August 2012
Legal Advisor
Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, Cabinet of the Special Secretary for Water

29 July 2005 - today
Lawyer at the Supreme Court of Greece, Member of the Athens Bar

Internship
16 March 2006 - 15 June 2006
Intern
European Union, European Economic and Social Committee, Department of Foreign Relations

3 October 2005 - 3 February 2006
Intern
Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, D1 Directorate UN & International Organizations

January 2004 – June 2005
Intern
Piraeus Bank Thessaloniki, Legal Department

Teaching experience
19 November 2020 – 15 February 2021
Teaching staff in MSc ‘Man and Water’ (The legal framework for management of water resources in Greece)
International University of Greece, Department of Forestry and Natural Environment

12 November 2020 – 28 February 2021
Teaching staff in MSc ‘Analysis and Management of Manmade and Natural Disasters’ (Economic consequences of natural disasters)
International University of Greece and Fire Academy

25 May 2020 – 03 July 2020 & 31 August 2020 – 09 October 2020
Teaching staff ‘Signature–ratification and management of international agreements’
Training School for Legal Advisors of the Hellenic Army, 2nd & 3rd Training Schools

18 February 2018 – 26 March 2019
Scientific associate PD 407/80 (Exercises of International and European Law, Special Part of Public International Law)
Democritos University of Thrace, Faculty of Law

14 November 2018 – 30 September 2019
Academic Scholar (International Institutions, International Humanitarian Law)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Law

Academic years 2017-2021
Visiting lecturer in the LLM Programme «Public Law-Public Policies»
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law

Academic years 2018-2021
Visiting lecturer in the LLM Programme «Public International Law»
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law

Academic years 2015-2020
Visiting lecturer in the MSc programme «Ecology and biodiversity management»
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Biology

Academic years 2015-2021
Academic staff in the School of Hellenic Police Officers (Public International law & International Humanitarian Law)
Hellenic Police Headquarters, Ministry of Civil Protection

Academic programme 2018 ‘Protection and sustainable management of surface and groundwater’
Academic staff
National Center of Public Administration

Academic years 2016-2021
President and member of the commission for the assessment of dissertations
Hellenic Police Headquarters, Ministry of Civil Protection

Academic years 2016-2021
Member of the commission for written examination for candidate police officers for placement in International Organizations and Diplomatic Missions of Greece
Hellenic Police Headquarters, Ministry of Civil Protection

Lectures
March 2019
The environmental protection of transboundary watercourses: International law & practice.
European Law Student Association Thessaloniki, International Conference on Environmental Law

December 2017
Fresh water resources management and law. Examples drawn by the international community.
European Law Student Association Komotini, International winter school

December 2016
Institutional framework for the protection and management of water resources.
National Center of Public Administration

June 2016
The management of transboundary fresh water resources in international law
Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Academy

Publications
• Tzatzaki. 2020. Restrictive measures when trading water: May GATT protect us from water scarcity. Yearbook of International Environmental Law. (Accepted for publication, in print)
• Tzatzaki. 2020. The new legal framework for the management of waste in Greece. Institutional interventions for a holistic approach. Perivallon kai Dikaio 3/2020, 407-418.
• Tzatzaki. 2020. Recent Developments in Environmental Law in Greece: A Commentary. International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy: 66.
• Tzatzaki. 2020. Floods and Climate Change: Recent Institutional developments. Nomos kai Physis. https://nomosphysis.org.gr/20222/plimmyres-kai-klimatiki-allagi-prosfates-thesmikes-ekselikseis/
• World Bank. 2019. Enabling the business of agriculture 2019 (English). Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.        https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/31804/9781464813870.pdf?sequence=7&isAllowed=y. (National expert).
• Tzatzaki. 2018. Adapting the legal framework of natural marine resources management to climate disruption: The case of Greece. Arctic Review on Law and Politics: 1.
• United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. 2018. Words into Actions Guidelines, Implementation Guide for Addressing Water-Related Disasters and Transboundary Cooperation, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe United Nations Publications, 112 p. (National expert).
• Tzatzaki. 2017. Human dignity as a common element in international biolaw and the right to water. Ius et Scientia: 1.
• World Bank. 2017. Enabling the business of agriculture 2017 (English). Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.        http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/369051490124575049/Enabling-the-business-of-agriculture-2017. (National expert).
• Tzatzaki. 2017 National approaches for the realization of the human right to water: A comparative study, in E.J. Lohse & P.P. Poto (eds.), Best Practices for the Protection of Water by Law: Focus on participatory instruments in environmental law and politics, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2017, pp 13-30.
• Tzatzaki and A. Dan Tarlock. 2015. International Water Law and Climate Disruption Adaptation, in A. Tanzi, O. McIntyre, A. Kolliopoulos, A. Rieu-Clarke & R. Kinna (eds.), The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use on Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, BRILL pp. 379-393.
• Tzatzaki. 2014. Solidarity and Law: Examples drawn by the international community. European Review of Public Law 26 (1): 16.
• Tzatzaki. 2013. The operation of swimming pools and golf courses in the framework of integrated water resources management in Greece, in Α. Koutsouradis (ed), Contemporary legal and developmental problems of Greek tourism: 3rd Conference of Tourism Law-Chalkidiki 27-30 September 2012, pp 425-436
• Tzatzaki. 2012. Water in public international law. Nomiki Vivliohtiki (480 pages).

• Tzatzaki. 2012. Tourism and water resoures in international law and integrated management, in A. Koutsouradis (ed), International and European Dimension of Tourism, 2nd Conference of Tourism Law, Nomiki Vivliothiki, pp 322-331.
• Tzatzaki. 2008. The contribution of the legal aspect of hydrology to the management of international water resources, in H.-J. Liebscher, R. Clarke, J. Rodda, G. Schultz, A. Schumann, L. Ubertini & G. Young (eds.), The Role of Hydrology in Water Resources Management, Proceedings of a symposium on the role of hydrology in water resources management, Capri, Italy, October 2008.IAHS Publication 327, pp. 24-28.
• Tzatzaki. 2008. The UN Convention on International Watercourses and Integrated Water Resources Management: A bridge built, 4 IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 4 012036
• Tzatzaki. 2008. The UN Convention on International Watercourses: Do we need it? WRA's 13th World Water Congress, 1-4 September 2008, Montpellier, France.
• Tzatzaki. 2008. The element of equitable utilization in the settlement of water related investment disputes, Efarmoges Dimosiou Dikaiou ΙΙ/2018, pp 521-548.

Presentations in international workshops and conferences
• International conference European Society of International Law-Interest Group on International Environmental Law “International Law in Times of Trade Wars and Global Environmental Problems: Protection or Protectionism?” (31.05-01.06.2019), Moscow, Russia.
• Annual Conference of the Hellenic Society of International Law & International Relations ‘Human rights: From Declaration to Claim’ (20-22.12.2018), Athens, Greece.
• 13ο World Conference ‘Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law’ (27-29.11.2018), UNESCO Chair on Bioethics, Jerusalem, Israel.
• International Conference ‘20 years after Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine’, Laboratory for the Study of Health Law and Bioethics (08-09.12.2017), Thessaloniki, Greece.
• International seminar European Society of International Law-Interest Group on Biolaw “International Biolaw and interactions with environmental, human rights and health law” (27.10.2017), Malaga, Spain.
• International Conference “Sustainable Drainage: Planning, Regulation and Management” (19-20.10.2017), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Διεθνές σεμινάριο “Natural Marine Resource Management in a Changing Climate”, K.G. Jebesen Center for the Law of the Sea, Tromsø (13-14.06.2017).
• 4thDrin Stakeholders Conference, Global Water Partnership (14-15.12.2016), Pristina, Kosovo.
• International Conference “Adapting to Climate Change” (21-22.06.2016), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Expert Workshop “Best practices for the protection of water in times of crisis. Focus on participatory instruments in environmental law and policies” (22-23.04.2016), Erlangen, Germany.
• 1st International Conference on Redrafting Water Management (08-09.10.2015), Lisbon, Portugal.
• 1st meeting of the Network of Economic Regulators, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (14.04.2013), Paris, France.
• “International Symposium on the Role of Hydrology in Water Resources Management”, IHP-UNESCO (13-16.10.2008), Capri, Italy.
• “XIIIth World Water Congress”, International Water Resources Association (01-04.09.2008), Montpellier, France.
• XXIVth Conference of the Danubian Countries”, National Committee of Slovenia for the International Hydrological Program of UNESCO (02-04.06.2008), Bled, Slovenia.
• “International Groundwater Conference on Groundwater Dynamics and Global Change” (19-22.03.2008), Jaipur, India.
• “5th International Water History Association Conference”, International Hydrological Programme (13-17.06.2007), Tampere, Finland.

Foreign Languages
English:    -Certificate of Proficiency in English, Cambridge University
-Certificate of Proficiency in English, University of Michigan
French:     -Diplôme d'études en langue française (DELF), 1er Degré
-Diplôme d'études en langue française (DELF), 2ème Degré
Italian:       Diploma di Lingua Italiana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Computers      ECDL Profile Certificate (Excel, Word, Internet)