Bouchagiar Antonios
MembersMember of the Legal Service of the European Commission, Adjunct professor
Antonios Bouchagiar is a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission, currently working in the team dealing with institutional aspects of EU law and data protection. In the past, he worked for several years in the team in charge of EU State aid law, where he dealt with cases mainly in the fields of banking, energy, arbitration, transport and regional aid. He regularly litigates on behalf of the Commission before the EU Courts in Luxembourg.
In parallel, he teaches as an adjunct professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB; Brussels School of Governance), as well as at the Brussels School of Competition. He is also a PhD candidate in the field of information law in the Ionian University (Corfu, Greece).
Prior to joining the Legal Service, he handled cases of merger control in the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission. Before joining the Commission, he was an associate lawyer in the antitrust group of the Brussels offices of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Howrey LLP. He has published several books and articles on various fields of EU law, in particular competition law, State aid law, data protection law and internal market law. Mr Bouchagiar graduated from the University of Athens (LL.B., LL.M. in civil law), the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Erasmus) and the College of Europe in Bruges (LL.M. in EU law with specialisation in economic analysis).
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