Vasiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou studied Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Then, she obtained a Master’ s degree in Public Law and a PhD in Environmental Law from the University of Cologne (Germany). After her return to Greece, she worked as a Legal Advisor to the Deputy Minister for Environment and as a Consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme-Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP-MAP). She also worked as a Senior Investigator in the Greek Ombudsman. She is Associate Professor of EU Administrative Law and EU Environmental Law in the Department of International, European and Area Studies of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece). Her research interests focus on EU and National Environmental Law in interrelation with the International Environmental Law and specific aspects of EU Administrative Law (judicial protection, transparency).

She is author of four monographs, while she has also published extensively on issues relating to EU and National Environmental Law in co-relation with the International Environmental Law on issues concerning the procedural environmental rights, the water protection, the instruments of environmental legislation and the principles of environmental law both in greek and in english. She is a Member of the Avosetta Group of the EU Environmental Law Professors and General Secretary of the Board of the Greek Association of Environmental Law.