Georgia Anastasiou Themistocleous is a Deputy Economic Director at the Ministry of Finance (MoF) of Cyprus, Head of the National Sanctions Implementation Unit (NSIU). For the past ten years, she has been responsible for financial sector policy matters, focusing particularly on financial stability, financial literacy and transposition of the EU financial services acquis into national law. She also serves as an Alternate Member of the Financial Services Committee (FSC) of the Council of the European Union. Over the last three years, her main responsibilities have centered on restrictive measures and sanctions. She is the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Economic Sanctions to the NSIU. She also represents Cyprus as the national competent authority on sanctions at the High-Level Committee of the European Commission. Ms. Themistocleous has participated in numerous seminars and conferences on illicit finance and sanctions matters, including the International Training Course on UN Sanctions at the Geneva Graduate Institute and the executive training program “Making Sanctions Work: Political, Legal, and Economic Challenges of EU Restrictive Measures” at the Florence School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute). She holds a BSc in Business Finance and Economics from the University of East Anglia (UK) and a Master’s degree in Public Sector Management from the Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), where she received a Director’s Prize for her Final Project on Improving the Business Environment for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Cyprus.
