Dionysia Katelouzou

Reader (Associate Professor) in Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London

Dr. Dionysia Katelouzou is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Corporate Law and Corporate Governance at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, where she has been a faculty member since July 2013. Prior to joining King’s, she was a Lecturer in Law at the University of East Anglia.

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 Research Associate at the Centre of Business Research, University of Cambridge, a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and a member of the Bar of Athens. She has held visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London).

She is the founder and leader of the Global Investor Stewardship Project, an international initiative with over 150 academic and non-academic members across 27 jurisdictions. She has secured research funding from the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and has conducted commissioned research for the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the London Stock Exchange. She has also contributed to public consultations for UK, Japanese, and Greek policymakers and regulators.

Dr. Katelouzou has authored more than 25 research outputs (including books, journal articles, and book chapters) with over 520 citations and has presented her work at over 50 conferences, workshops, and symposia across 15 jurisdictions worldwide. Her scholarship has earned her the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship Award and several other grants and prizes, including the Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Prize for the best ECGI Law Working Paper (2020) for her co-authored paper, “The Global Diffusion of Stewardship Codes”.

She currently serves as Chair of the Content Oversight Committee of StePs e.V – Association of Stewardship Professionals, contributing to the advancement of stewardship and responsible investment practices.