Aphrodite A. Bletas 

Attorney at law; CEDR accredited Mediator; European Patent Attorney; President of the Hellenic-Chinese Business Chamber.
 
Born in Athens Greece, she is an alumna of the American College of Greece "Pierce College"; she studied law at the Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) University, International Relations at the Institute of Political Sciences of Paris (Sciences-Po),  European law at the University Center for European Studies; Certified CEDR mediator she also engaged at the Harvard program on negotiation. She is a member of the Athens Bar Association, and an accredited by the ministry of Justice mediator. Senior partner of the “Bletas & Costakis” law firm and of the "mediate.gr" mediation group. Member of the European Patent Office in Munich; Founding member and President of the Hellenic-Chinese Business Chamber she tries hard to promote the hellenic-chinese bilateral relations.  For several years she served as Secretary General of the Athens & Piraeus Federation of Industries, participating under this capacity to the board of the European Capital Cities Entrepreneurial Organization in Paris ( BECC ); currently she is the International President of the European Union of Women, a UN accredited Organisation  founded in Vienna in 1953 pertaining to Women's empowerment; in 2019 she was appointed  to run for the European Parliament election; she is fluent in six languages and currently studies Chinese.

Email: a.bletas@bletalaw.gr, aphrodite@mediate.gr Tel: (+30) 210 3607 657 - 210 36 16 785
 

Dimitris S. Costakis

 Admitted to Bar 1983. Lawyer to the Supreme Court.
 Concentration: Competition Law, Law of commercial contracts, Franchising.Has been dealing with Franchise since1992 and has participated in several Franchise Conferences as a specialized speaker. Furthermore he has published several articles about Franchise Contracts.
Professional Memberships:  I) Athens Bar Association, II)European Lawyers’ Union. III)American Bar Association (Franchise Division),
IV) Greek Franchise Association.  Author: 1) “Fees” in Lawyer in the European Community (Sakkoulas, 1991) ; 2) Franchising from Legal and Entrepreneurial Point of View (Nomiki Vivliothiki, 1rst ed. 1998, 2nd ed. 2002); 3) “Franchise Agreement” in Distributorship Agreements (Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2009) 

Email: kostakis.d.ss@dsa.gr Tel: 210 36 30 830