Vice-President of the HCC

Attorney-at-law LL.M, MSc (Economics)

Hara Nikolopoulou is a lawyer and has been working at the Directorate General for Competition of the Hellenic Competition Commission since 2011. She was appointed Vice President of the HCC in July 2022.

She has almost 20 years of experience practicing competition law and has handled numerous cartel, abuse of dominance and merger cases in a wide range of industries.

She has served the HCC in various positions of trust, having served as Director, Head of Units in the Legal Services Directorate and responsible for the International Relations of the HCC.

Prior to joining the HCC Hara worked as a competition lawyer at the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission, in the competition practice group of law firms in Athens and Brussels and as a trainee at the European Commission.

Hara graduated from the School of Law of the University of Athens in 2000 and was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2002.

She holds an LL.M in Corporate and Commercial Law from University College London and a Master of Science in Economics (Economic Regulation and Competition) from the Department of Economics of City University in London.

She speaks English and French and has a basic knowledge of German.