Thomas Nektarios Papanastasiou

Thomas Nektarios Papanastasiou is an assistant professor of public international law at the Law Faculty of Neapolis University of Paphos (Cyprus) and an attorney licensed to practice with the Athens Bar. He holds a PhD and an MA from Waseda University of Tokyo, and an LL.M and LL.B from the Kapodistrian University of Athens. Thomas has worked as a consultant to international organizations and consulting firms in Japan and Europe. His publications include: The Legal Protection of Foreign Investments against Political Risk: Japanese Business in the Asian Energy Sector (Quid Pro Books, 2015), which was awarded with the 2013 Arghyrios Fatouros Prize by the International Law Association (Hellenic Branch), as the best dissertation by a young scholar in the field of International Economic Law; and Corruption in the Infrastructure Provision: The Role of Accountability Mechanisms in the Community Driven Development Projects of Indonesia (NOVA Publishers, 2016).