Ioannis is an Associate Professor in Employment Law at the University of Sussex and a Senior Researcher in European Social and Labour Law at the European Trade Union Institute. He holds an LL.B (First Class) from University of Athens and an M. Jur, M. Phil (Distinction) and D. Phil in Law from University of Oxford. His doctoral studies were funded by an Onassis Foundation Scholarship and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Studentship. Ioannis has undertaken extensive research in the field of collective labour rights at national, comparative, European and international levels. His most recent work is on the relation between the right to strike and democracy. Ioannis has been the author (or co-author) of reports for the European Parliament and International Labour Organisation. He is the Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, a Member of the Research Panel of the Institute of Employment Rights, an Associate Member of the Centre of Law at Work of the University of Bristol and a reviewer for the Industrial Law Journal.