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Dr. Eva Litina, Ph.D., is a special scientific advisor at the Hellenic Consumers' Ombudsman (in the fields of energy and transport) and an attorney-at-law, admitted to the Athens and New York bars.

She completed her Ph.D. thesis in International Maritime Arbitration at the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport of the University of the Aegean in Greece where she also taught civil and commercial law, capital markets law and law of electronic transactions. Her main research interests include dispute resolution (arbitration and mediation), maritime and commercial law, comparative law, and diversity and inclusion.

She studied law at the University of Athens and received her Master of Laws from New York University School of Law. For her research, Eva has been granted university-funded scholarships from the University of the Aegean in Greece. She has also been awarded the (young) Comiteì Maritime International (CMI) Essay Prize 2021, the International Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section Scholarship in 2017, and scholarships from the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in 2017 and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg in 2018.

Her monograph entitled 'Theory, Law and Practice of Maritime Arbitration: The Case of International Contracts for the Carriage of Goods by Sea' was published with Kluwer Law International. Since 2021, Eva Litina is also a London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) Supporting Member and Vice Chair of the Community Building, Networking & Scholarship Committee of Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers (REAL).