Nicolas Kyriakides is a lawyer with experience in Banking, Insurance and Personal Injury Law. He graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, holds postgraduate degrees from UCL and NYU, as well as a PhD from the University of Oxford. He is the co-director of the Procedural Law Unit at the University of Nicosia. He is the President of the Reform and Civil Procedure Rules Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Arbitration Forum, a member of the Board of Directors of the Oxford University Cyprus Alumni Association and a Fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI). He is also a founding member of the non-profit organisation Oxygen for Democracy and its projects Nomoplatform and the Cyprus Forum.