Dr. Thomas-Nektarios PAPANASTASIOU (LLB, LLM, MA, PhD) is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Neapolis University Paphos. He is Coordinator of the Distance LLM (DLLM) Program in International & European Business Law and Director of the Legal Clinic of Neapolis University Paphos (‘’George Tenekides’’ Centre of International Law). He achieved his PhD from Waseda University, Graduate School of Asian Pacific Studies (Tokyo, Japan). His current research interests lie on the protection of foreign investments, the role of human rights in international investment arbitration, the right to property in the occupied Cyprus, the legal framework of offshore energy investments. He is the co-author (with N. Rubins & S. Kinsella) of International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (OUP, 2020), and author of two more books and various articles. Thomas worked as a consultant to the World Bank (WB, Washington DC), and as a trainee at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, Paris). He is a scholarship recipient from the Japanese Government (Ministry of Education-MEXT). His dissertation The Legal Protection of Foreign Investments against Political Risk: Japanese Business in the Asian Energy Sector awarded with the 2013 “Arghyrios Fatouros Prize” by the International Law Association (Hellenic Branch). He is also a lecturer at the Police Academy of Cyprus. He is currently vice President of the Cyprus-Japan Friendship Association.
