About

Focus on: Despina Doxaki

Despina Doxaki is a professional with 30 years of experience in international financing transactions. She is highly skilled in all types of funds raising and lending, and in the past years, has been involved in EU and institutional policy making matters. Her area of expertise is in the financial services sector, in banking, infrastructure, utilities and energy. 

Despina’s work experience has mainly been based in multicultural environments, in places such as New York, Athens, London and Brussels. In 2018, she relocated from London to Athens to assume the position of chief legal counsel with the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund, is a member of the Executive Committee and serves as a technical expert in the Investment Management Committee. 

She has worked in London and New York as a partner with Norton Rose Fulbright, Shearman & Sterling, and Milbank; in Brussels with McDermont & Ellis and the EU Commission; and in Athens with Alpha Bank AE, KPMG, Ellactor (CIS) and KG Law Firm.  

Despina is an independent non-executive member of the board of directors of Public Power Corporation and non-executive member in the board of directors of Attica Bank. She was a visiting professor to University of Piraeus from 2014 to 2016.  

Despina is a strong believer that business goals result from an accurate description and understanding of facts; flexibility to allow for options; the opposite party is a counterparty and will have legitimate interest; honest – open dialogue – fair play and ethos towards a balanced approach; mature circumstances; and mature lawyers.