Internationally recognised Scholar, CSO representative and Legal Expert, researching, transferring knowledge and managing programmes in the broad fields of European and International Law, Governance and Rights at several organisations throughout Europe, including Cyprus, Germany and the UK, for over 20 years. D.A.A.D. International Visiting Professor and Chair holder at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) at the University of Ruhr in Bochum, Germany (2024).  Visiting Professor on the Rule of Law at the United Nations Institute on Training and Research (UNITAR) (2023-). In 2021, she received from the European Parliament the European Citizen 2020 Prize on behalf of the non-profit research organisation she co-founded in 2017, ICLAIM, for its Social Mediation work, which she scaled up at the EU, UN and Council of Europe levels. Expert of the Council of Europe in anti-corruption, good governance, direct participation and democracy. Registered Mediator in commercial disputes with the Ministry of Justice and Public Order of the Republic of Cyprus since 2018. Selected by the European Commission as an Arbitrator and Trade & Sustainable Development Expert for bilateral disputes between the EU and third countries in the fields of trade, investment and sustainable development (2022-). 

She specialises in ‘Fundamental Rights in Context’ at the national/European/international level. She analyses/applies/reforms European/international law principles/values/instruments on fundamental human rights in troubled societies at national/supranational level (emergency/crisis/reform of legal systems). She is a Rule of Law expert on the sustainability of rights & systemic challenges to Justice and society (e.g. independence, transparency, accountability, digitisation, AI systems) in Europe. She also promotes actively social justice and advocates active citizenship via ICLAIM, from where she leads impactful research on wider societal issues and intercommunal programmes in Cyprus and beyond (see www.iclaimcentre.org). Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she led for ICLAIM the EU funded Horizon Europe project on Research Ethics and Integrity PREPARED (https://prepared-project.eu/) (2022-25). PREPARED is a global project looking at rapid intervention mechanisms in global crises including pandemics with prominent (WHO, UNESCO, ENRIO) but also local partners such as ICLAIM. She also supports local intercommunal projects and partners in Cyprus under the EuropeAid programme of the European Commission, the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Actions or otherwise, upholding fundamental rights in Cyprus, such as with the EMBRACE project looking at human rights violations across the Green Line (https://www.cypdc.org/embrace) (2023-25), the social mediation programme (https://www.iclaimcentre.org/projects/social-mediation) (2018-), but also CSO empowerment activities https://social-mediation.org/social-mediation-at-the-centre-for-rule-of-law-and-european-values-crolev/ (2022-25). On behalf of ICLAIM, she advocates for civic space and rights in the context of the UN Convention on Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) and its Protocols on human trafficking and smuggling (https://www.iclaimcentre.org/projects/smuggling-and-human-trafficking-across-the-green-line) (2021-22), as well as on Crime prevention, Criminal Justice and Rule of Law under the Kyoto Protocol, and relays impactful research at the global level via the UN ODC dedicated CSO platform https://whatson.unodc.org/whatson/data/databases/ngo/public/i/iclaim.html. 

For the past 25 years, she has acted as legal expert in Cyprus and/or abroad in her respective fields of expertise including for the Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus on EU law matters (2018-19; 2020). She belongs to boards and/or networks of academic/professional experts at the national/EU level, is a Professor and/or Research Fellow at prestigious institutions throughout Europe, regularly consults in Cyprus, the UK and at the EU level, is UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Lead, and is an Expert of the European Commission and its Agencies.