Dr. Dionysia Katelouzou

Dr. Dionysia Katelouzou is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Corporate Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. One strand of her research deals with investor stewardship, shareholder activism, and sustainability, especially from a socio-legal and transnational perspective. Her work is distinctive in its empirical orientation and combines socio-legal analysis with empirical methods (incl. econometric analysis, network analysis, in-depth interviews and natural language processing).

Dr. Katelouzou holds a PhD and an LLM (first class) from the University of Cambridge, and an LLB (summa cum laude) from the University of Athens. She is a member of the Bar of Athens and a Research Associate at the Centre of Business Research at the University of Cambridge, while in the past she had been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London), among others.

She serves as the Chair of the Content Oversight Committee of StePs e.V – Association of Stewardship Professionals, and she is leading the ECGI-supported Global Investor Stewardship project, consisting of more than 120 academic and non-academic members across 27 jurisdictions around the world. She has authorship of 21 research outputs (books/journal articles/chapters) with >365 citations and more than 20 shorter articles and blogposts. She has received the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship Award 2022 as well as several other grants and prizes. She has conducted commissioned research for the Financial Reporting Council and has presented her research at conferences and symposia around the world.

She was awarded the Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP prize for the best ECGI Law Working Paper in 2020 for her co-authored paper, “The Global Diffusion of Stewardship Codes”.