Zinovia Chaido Stavridi

Zinovia-Chaido (Jenny) Stavridi is Honorary Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic. She served as Legal Adviser and Head of the Legal Department of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leading the Public International Law and European Law Sections of the Department (2022-2024) and as Head of the Section of Public International Law (2013-2022). 

She has a long-standing engagement with public international law at the highest levels of the Greek Foreign Service, which has shaped her career. 

Mrs. Stavridi served as national representative at the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly of the U.N., the Steering Committee on Public International Law (CAHDI) of the Council of Europe, the Steering Committee on Human Rights of the Council of Europe, where she also served as member of its Bureau, as well as representative of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in various other international multilateral and bilateral meetings and negotiations. In 2009, she was appointed Special Representative of the Greek Chairpersonship-in-Office of the OSCE to strengthen the OSCE’s legal framework, drawing on her legal expertise. Academically, she is a guest lecturer in the LL.M. in International & European Law programme at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has delivered lectures on various subjects of Public International Law including at the Diplomatic Academy of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

In her advisory capacity, she has represented the Hellenic Republic in international litigation mechanisms, including as Agent of the Hellenic Republic before the International Court of Justice. 

Mrs Stavridi was appointed by Greece as arbitrator of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in April 2025, and was subsequently elected to its Bureau.