Σωκράτης Λαζαρίδης

Socrates Lazaridis is Chief Executive Officer of the Hellenic Exchanges-Athens Stock Exchange and the subsidiaries Athens Exchange Clearing House and Hellenic Central Securities Depository.

He serves as Chairman of the Board of the Stock Markets Steering Committee, Chair of the Working Committee of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS), B’ Vice-Chairman of the Association of S.A. & Limited Liability Companies and President in the Capital Markets & Corporate Governance Sector. Also he is Member of the Board of the American – Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Member of the Board of the Council on Competitiveness of Greece.

He joined the Athens Exchange Group in 1994 and held several positions at the Central Securities Depository, the “Systems Development and Support of Capital Market” (ASYK SA) and the Athens Exchange, while he also served as Member of the Board at Athens Derivatives Exchange and the Athens Derivatives Exchange Clearing House. He was Member of the Board of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, Member of the Board of the LinkUp Markets and of the Federation of the European Securities Exchanges (FESE). Also he served as Vice Chairman and then as Acting Chairman of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS).

He studied Economics at the Department of Economics in Athens University and continued his studies for an MSc (Econ) at Queen Mary College of London.