Katia Neofytou

Katia is a lawyer specialising in Healthcare Law and holds a PhD in Law. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (LL.B, 2011), holds a Master's Degree in Medical Law and Bioethics (LL.M, 2013) and a PhD in Law (PhD in Law, 2018) titled "A Comparative Socio-Legal Analysis of the Responses to Surrogacy in Greece and the UK" from the University of Kent Law School in the United Kingdom. Katia taught Civil and Tort Law to undergraduate students in English.

She currently works as an attorney-at-law at a top-tier law firm in cooperation with a Big Four accounting firm, and provides legal advice to domestic and international clients operating mainly, but not exclusively, in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, covering the full range of their legal needs. She also advises companies in different industries on competition law compliance issues, as well as on the full range of their commercial activities. In the past, Katia has been a Legal Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and was involved in research on surrogacy, funded by the EU and subsequently published by the European Parliament. She has worked at the National Health Service (NHS) in London, England, as part of the department determining the allocation of funding for healthcare to patients.

She published a co-authored article entitled 'The fertility treatment time forgot: What should be done about surrogacy in the UK?' in Horsey, K. (ed.), Revisiting the Regulation on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Routledge 2015). She is also preparing articles for publication in academic journals.