Niki Koumadoraki

Niki is pursuing a PhD on trade and artificial intelligence (AI), exploring how trade law’s market access and non-discrimination rules are adapted to today’s technologically advanced reality, and how they tackle inequalities in the value-added sector of AI trade.

She completed an LLM in international trade and investment law at WTI (summa cum laude), a master’s in international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute (magna cum laude) and a law degree at the University of Athens, Greece (magna cum laude).

Niki has previously worked as trainee associate in VVGB law firm in Brussels, and as a consultant on trade and development at the International Trade Centre in Geneva. She has also interned at the WTO and at the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the WTO and has been a Bluebook trainee in DG Trade’s legal unit at the European Commission. Niki has also gained experience as intern at the UN OHCHR’s Petitions unit and at the “Human Rights in Business” team of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights and worked at a labour and social security law firm in Athens to qualify for the bar exam.