The Committee

President

Andreas Kapardis

Andreas Kapardis studied in England and holds a Ph.D in Criminology from Cambridge University, is Professor Emeritus, Law Department, University of Cyprus. He is currently the President of the Sport Integrity Committee of Cyprus and chairs the bi-communal Technical Committee on Crime. During 1999-2020 he was a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, is a Life-Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and an elected Full Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has also been a Visiting Academic at the Cyprus Police Academy 2000-2019. His main research and teaching interests lie in criminology, criminal justice, police studies, penology, and legal psychology. For a number of years, he was a university academic in Australia, is a Senior Investigator graduate of the Victoria Police Detective Training School, has worked as Governor of the Central Prison in Nicosia and also as counselling psychologist in Australia. He has researched a broad variety of offenders, sentencing, legal psychology, policing, economic crimes, corruption, and prisoners in Cyprus. He has presented his work at numerous international conferences and published a significant number of books and over 250 scientific articles, chapters in books, in conference proceedings and so forth internationally. His books include: Fox, Farrington, Kapardis & Hambly (2020). Evidence-Based Offender Profiling. Routledge; Kapardis & Stephanou (2020) Sentencing in Cyprus, Nomiki Vivliothiki, Athens; Kapardis, A. & Samara-Krispi (eds.) (2018) Protecting the Environment from Human Intervention, Athens: Sakkoulas; Kapardis, A. & Farrington, D.P (eds), 2016, The Psychology of Crime, Policing and the Courts, London: Routledge; Kapardis, A., 2014, Psychology and Law (4th edition), Cambridge University Press and Baldry, A.C & Kapardis, A. (2013) Risk Assessment for Violent Offending, London: Routledge. He loves sport and is a 5th dan in Karate.

Vice President

Efthymios Efthymiou

Efthymios Efthymiou is founder and director of Dracos & Efthymiou L.L.C. Law Firm. He graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1980 with honours. He successfully completed his Bar in 1981 at the law office of Frixos and Hermione Markides. After operating his own firm for 3 years in 1985, he co-founded along with Antonios Gr. Dracos the Dracos & Efthymiou law firm. Efthymios has great interest in sport law and has served as a member of Supreme Court Sport Committee. Efthymios served for many years as the chairman of the Basketball Judicial Committee and as the chairman of the Handball Judicial Committee and Badminton Judicial Committee. Efthymios has been the legal consultant for Cyprus Airways pilots and flight attendant association. He is also the vice-president of the Association of Friends of the Cyprus Museum. In February 2021 he was appointed by the Ministerial Council as a member of the Committee of Ethics & Safeguarding in Sport and now acts as the secretary of the committee.

Member

Christina Ioannou

Dr. Christina Ioannou is Associate Dean of the School of Law of the University of Nicosia, Associate Professor of European Politics and Labour Law, and the Editor-in-Chief of the academic Journal 'The Cyprus Review'. She is also a Senior Consultant on labour and employment law issues with the Legal Firm A. & E. C. Emilianides, C. Katsaros & Associates LLC. In February 2021 she was appointed by the Council of Ministers of Cyprus in the five-member Committee of Ethics and Safeguarding in Sport, which is the country’s national platform for sport integrity. In December 2020 she was appointed by the former President of the Republic in his advising team on the Cyprus Problem, most recently participating in the latest Cyprus talks held in Geneva, under the auspices of the UN (April 2021). She is also a member of the bi-communal Technical Committee for Crime and Criminal Matters, following appointment by former President Anastasiades in June 2022. She also served a two-year term in the Parallel Parliament for Civil Society, in the Committee of Human Rights and Social Affairs (November 2019 - November 2021). Dr Ioannou is a member of the Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WICCI) Cyprus. She is the Director of the Gender and Law Research Group at the University of Nicosia, a member of the University Gender Equality Ad Hoc Committee and of the University Centre of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (CEDI). Dr Ioannou has participated οver the years in many EU-funded research programmes (Jean Monnet, European Parliament contracts, European Commission reports as country expert, Socrates Programmes) and national research grants, international conferences, and has published widely on the areas of labour law, EU social affairs and welfare state politics.

Member

Nicolas Koursaris

Nicolas Koursaris was born in Nicosia, on 22nd November, 1984. After graduating from Pancyprian Gymnasium in Nicosia and ending his military service, he went to study at the Law School of Leicester University, in U.K, where he received his Law Degree. Since 2008 he has worked as advocate and in 2023, he founded the law firm N. Koursaris LLC. He specializes in a lot of fields of law such as, amongst others, sports law, labor law, family law, contract law etc. He was President and member of many judicial committees and legal advisor of many sports federations. He is elected member of Nicosia Bar Association from 2012 and from 2017 he is the Vice President of the same. In August 2024 he was appointed by the Council of Ministers as member of the Committee of Ethics and Sports Safeguarding.

Member

Stefanos A. Skordis

Stefanos A. Skordis was born in Nicosia, on 18th July, 1978. After graduating from B΄ Kykkos Lyceum and ending his military service, he went to study at the Law School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in Greece, where he received his Law Degree and a Masters degree in International and European law. Since 2004 he has worked as advocate and he is currently a partner in the law firm Skordis & Stefanou LLC. He specializes in a lot of fields of law such as, amongst others, sports law, labor law, family law, contract law etc. He was President and member of many judicial committees and legal advisor of many sports federations. He is a member of the European Handball Court of Arbitration. In September, 2023, he was elected as President of Nicosia Bar Association. In August 2023 he was appointed by the Council of Ministers as member of the Committee of Ethics and Sports Safeguarding. He is currently the national coordinator for the Macolin Convention of the Council of Europe.