Mr Loukas Spanos

Loukas Spanos is an economist (BA, MSc, University of Athens) & accredited mediator. He is Director of the Financial Mediation Center at the Hellenic Financial Ombudsman. He is Mentor in the Visa Innovation Progam (Greece) and he also works with Match2Invest a boutique consulting firm in sustainability and CSR-related services.Previously he was Senior Advisor to the Board Chair of the National Bank of Greece,responsible for CSR & sustainability, 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), Head of the Office of the Minister of Development (2009/10) & Policy Advisor at the Hellenic Parliament,where he was responsible for various competition-enhancing & product market reforms and legislatures (the simplification of procedure for business establishment,the Labour Arbitration/Mediation, Social Economy/Entrepreneurship, EU funding instruments). 
He was member of the Expert Committee of the Athens Exchange for the implementation of the European Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) & 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. Recent work includes his contribution (CSR & crowdfunding) to the ‘Corporate Responsibility and Digital Communities’ published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. 
He teaches a laboratory class (Introduction to Computer Science & Information Processing) at the Department of Economics,University of Athens. He is fellow of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff) of the Tokyo Foundation.