Regina Asariotis is Chief (a.i.) of the Trade Logistics Branch in the Division on Technology and Logistics of UNCTAD with responsibility for UNCTAD’s related work, including coordination of the UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2025. She is also Chief of the Policy and Legislation Section, with responsibility for UNCTAD's work on transport law and policy.
Before joining UNCTAD in 2001, Regina was a Senior Lecturer in Maritime Law at the University of Southampton and a member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Maritime Law, an internationally leading centre for research and teaching in the field.
She holds a German law degree (Bavaria), an English LL.M (Soton) and a German doctorate in Maritime Law (Dr. jur., Hamburg) and is a practising Barrister (England & Wales), an Attorney at Law (Greece), as well as Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).