Professor Konstantinos Sergakis

Konstantinos Sergakis is Professor and Personal Chair at the University of Exeter Law School and Director of the Center for European Legal Studies (CELS).

Professor Sergakis is a Member (Alternate) of the Joint Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA). He was appointed to this position in 2021 by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) for a five year mandate. The Board is responsible for deciding on appeals against certain decisions of the three Authorities and its decisions can themselves be appealed to the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Professor Sergakis serves as Chairperson of the BPP Oversight Committee (BPP OC), the proxy advisors’ global industry group. His role is to provide, together with the other Committee members (listed company and institutional investor representatives) an annual independent review of the monitoring of the Best Practice Principles and an annual independent review of the public reporting of each BPP Signatory. He also provides guidance and advice to the BPP Group with respect to the operation and development of the Principles and liaises globally with regulators representing the BPP OC.

He has also served as Knowledge and Research Director at GUBERNA, the Belgian Institute of Directors. He was also member of GUBERNA's Executive committee, Lead of its Centre ‘Listed Companies’ and Member of its Sounding Board Committee on Cybersecurity, Sounding Board Committee on Sustainability and Sounding Board Committee on SME/Start-up/Scale-up

He has also served as Advisor at Mefop Spa, the company created by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance for the development of the pension fund market and of other social security forms and undertakes public policy initiatives in the area of stewardship, such as the co-authorship of the inaugural Stewardship Guidelines for Italian pension funds.

He has launched as a Founding Member and served as Member of the Board of Directors at important initiatives in transnational corporate governance, such as the ESG European Institute, the first multistakeholder ESG think tank (academics, CEOs, directors, ESG analysts, lawyers, policy makers, proxy advisors among many others).

Professor Sergakis has previously served as Professor of Capital Markets Law and Corporate Governance at the University of Glasgow. He acted as the Postgraduate Teaching Director, having previously convened the LLM in Corporate & Financial Law and acted as School Director for Internationalisation. He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Aarhus, Global College of Law at UCLouvain, University of Liechtenstein, LUISS Guido Carli University and University of Trento. In 2024, he was appointed Peter Ellinger Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. served as Professor of Capital Markets Law and Corporate Governance at the University of Glasgow. He acted as the Postgraduate Teaching Director, having previously convened the LLM in Corporate & Financial Law and acted as School Director for Internationalisation.served as Professor of Capital Markets Law and Corporate Governance at the University of Glasgow. He acted as the Postgraduate Teaching Director, having previously convened the LLM in Corporate & Financial Law and acted as School Director for Internationalisation.