Meet our Chair and the members of the Board of Management.
Ms Joanna Demetriou, Board Chair
Joanna Demetriou graduated from The English School in 1998. She studied Law at the University of Nottingham (LLB Law), and obtained her Master’s Degree from King’s College London (LLM in Public International Law). She is also a Barrister-at-Law (Gray’s Inn), having completed the Bar Vocational Course at the Inns of Court School of Law (City University, London).
After her studies, she completed internships at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, and at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations in Geneva. She completed her pupillage at Tassos Papadopoulos & Co Law Firm in Nicosia, and after qualifying as a lawyer in Cyprus, practiced as an associate advocate at L. Papaphilippou & Co Law Firm in Nicosia. Since 2009, she serves as Counsel at the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic of Cyprus, with experience in civil law and civil litigation, public administrative law and judicial review, and public international law. She currently holds the position of Counsel for the Republic A’ (International Law Section).
As Counsel for the Republic she mainly deals in advisory work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic. She has represented Cyprus twice in cases before the International Court of Justice in the Hague as member of the delegation of the Republic. She also represents Cyprus in proceedings before the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and handles cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She is a member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and of the Cyprus Bar Association. She is also a member of the International and European Law Committee as well as the Human Rights Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association.
She is a Board Member of the Cyprus Tennis Federation since 2019. In 2022, she was appointed Chair of the ‘Women and Sports’ Commission of the Cyprus Olympic Committee by its Executive Council, a position which she holds to date. She was appointed Chair of The English School Board of Management in February 2024.
