Vicky Christoforou

Attorneys General Office of Cyprus (Cyprus)

Vicky Christoforou was born and raised in Nicosia. She studied law in UK at Sheffield University (LLB), with a Masters in European Law and Business Administration from Surrey University (LLM). She also holds a Diploma of Legal Drafting from the Institute of Advance Legal Studies, London University, and a Master’s Level Certificate in Intellectual Property Law, also from London University.

She holds many years of professional experience in the harmonization of Cypriot law with the European and international law, representing the Republic in National and European Courts, in Working Groups of the Council of the European Union, Standing Committees of the Council of Europe (GRETA and PC-ES), the World Intellectual Property Organization as well as the European Patent Organization. She was a member of the negotiation teams for the harmonisation of intellectual property and corporate law during the accession process of Cyprus to the European Union and, from 2002 to 2004, a member of the Greek Cypriot delegations that participated in the negotiations for the overall settlement of the Cyprus problem. In 2009 she was awarded a scholarship by the US State department for her contribution in combating human trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors in Cyprus. During the Cyprus Presidency of the EU Council (2012) she chaired the EU Council Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights. She worked in the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission as a National Expert (2013-2017) acting as a quasi-judge with the responsibility of drafting decisions on state aid schemes in the fields of Environmental Protection, Research, Technology and Development, Transport and Tonnage Tax. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Accreditation Body (CYS-CYSAB) since 2020. Lastly, she is a member of the Steering Committee for the Cyprus Company Law Reform.