Keynote Speakers

Venia Papathanasopoulou
Director Legal Affairs & Secretary to the BoD, Accredited Mediator (CEDR & Hellenic Ministry of Justice) CCPIT & CCOIC Mediator, Athens International Airport S.A., Greece
Venia Papathanasopoulou is an Attorney-at-Law at the Supreme Court, LL.M, Legal Director, Secretary to the BoD and Corporate Compliance Coordinator of ATHENS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT S.A. She has worked as General Counsel, Legal Advisor and Company Secretary in various companies such as PPC, ATHOC, ATHENS STOCK EXCHANGE., OPAP, QUEST Holdings S.A. She is a CEDR UK Accredited Mediator and a rapporteur for mediation issues at the Diploma in Negotiations program of Athens University of Economics & Business. She is presently General Secretary to the Board of Transparency International Greece.

Nikos Passas
Phd, Distinguished Inaugural Professor of Collective Action, Business Ethics and Compliance, International . Anti-Corruption Academy, Vienna, Austria; Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice and Co-Director, Institute for Security and Public Policy, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Among his many international positions and titles, Nikos Passas has more than 200 publications on corruption, illicit financial/trade flows, sanctions, informal fund transfers, remittances, terrorism, white-collar crime, financial regulation, organized crime and international crimes. Passas regularly consults with law firms, financial institutions, private security and consulting companies and various organizations, including the United Nations (ODC, Development Programme, Security Council, etc.), the
European Union, OECD, OSCE, the IMF, the World Bank, other multilateral and bilateral institutions, the US National Academy of Sciences, research institutions and government agencies in all continents.

Teresa (Teddi) Fishman
Director of the International Center for Academic Integrity, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
Dr. Teresa (Teddi) Fishman has served as the Director of the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) since 2008, after five years at Clemson University in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities where she taught courses on subjects ranging from science, technology and society to digital and visual rhetoric. As Director of ICAI her focus has been on internationalization, learning-centered policies, and inquiring into the systemic roots of academic dishonesty as well as proactive, customized, and creative means of promoting integrity in both academia and society at large. Her interest in ethics and academic integrity dates back to her pre-academic career in law enforcement which also inspired her master’s thesis. Dr. Fishman believes that integrity and authentic learning are necessary to create,
maintain, and nurture just and self-sustaining societies.