Nicholas A. Ioannides holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Bristol (2017). He was a Nippon Fellow at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg (2017-2018). He received an LLB from the School of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2010) and an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Bristol (2012).

He has taught Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law and European Law in academic institutions in Cyprus and abroad. He has served as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus in respect of issues pertaining to public international law and European law. He represented the Republic of Cyprus at the International Court of Justice in The Hague and in working groups of the Council of the European Union on the law of the sea (COMAR) and public international law (COJUR).

In 2019, he received an award by the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations for the best doctoral thesis in international law for the years 2017-2019. In 2020, he received an award by the International Association for the Law of the Sea (AssIDMer) for his academic article (“The Legal Framework Governing Hydrocarbon Activities in Undelimited Maritime Areas”) published in International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2019, Vol. 68).

He has published several academic articles/chapters in international legal publications. His monograph entitled “Maritime Claims and Boundary Delimitation: Tensions and Trends in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea” was published by Routledge (2021). A second monograph is currently under publication by Edward Elgar.

In his capacity as a lawyer and legal scholar, he served as Chairman of the International and European Law Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association.