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• Cyprus: The Council of Ministers reappoints Chairperson and appoints new Members to Commission for the Protection of CompetitionOn 16 April 2013, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus re-appointed Mrs Loukia Christodoulou as Chairperson of the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) for another term, until 17 April 2018.

On 24 May 2013, the Council of Ministers appointed Mrs Eleni Karaoli, Mr Charis Pastellis, Mr Christos Tsingis and Mr Andreas Karides as Members of the CPC, until 23 May 2018.

Mrs Loukia Christodoulou holds a degree in B.A. Law (Hons) and an LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Kent, Canterbury. She is a member of the Cypriot Bar. She practiced law in a number of established law firms in Limassol for eight years. From 2000 to 2007, she was a member of the Tax Council of the Republic of Cyprus. On 14 May 2008, she was appointed as a Member of the CPC by the Council of Ministers. In May 2010, when the Chairman’s office became vacant, she was appointed Acting Chairperson by the Members of the CPC and, in December 2011, Chairperson of the CPC by the Council of Ministers, until 17 April 2013.

Mrs Eleni Karaoli holds a degree in Law from the University of Athens as well as an LLM in European, Commercial and International Law from the University of Sheffield. She is a member of the Cypriot Bar Association. Before joining the CPC she worked for the Office of the Commissioner for Electronic Communication from 2003 to 2008. Mrs Karaoli was also a Member of the CPC from 2008 to 2013.

Mr Pastellis holds a degree in B.A. Economics and Government from the University of Essex and an MA in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester. For the past 12 years, Mr Pastellis served as a Business Development Manager in a number of large corporations in Nicosia.

Mr Tsingis holds a BA degree in Marketing with Retail Management (Hons) from the University of North London and Certificates in Principles of Stock Exchange Investments and in Foreign Policy Analysis. Over the past 11 years she has held various managerial positions in companies active in the field of retail and electricity generation industry from renewable energy sources (RES) and especially in the construction and operation of wind power plants.

Mr Karides holds a degree in Economics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a degree in Journalism from the Centre of Free Social Philosophical Studies. Mr Karides was editor for economic affairs for a number of local and foreign print and electronic media. Mr Karides was also a substitute member of the CPC from 2008 to 2013.