Orestis Rizopoulos

Foundation studies in Art, Media and Design, BA in Fine Art, Diploma in History of Art and Cinema, Certified NFT Expert, LL. B Law, MA in Art Law and Arts Management, Currently, PhD candidate. 7 years experience in educational institutions as Art Department Manager and Educator in Research Methodology, and Visual Culture. 3-year experience as Project Coordinator (Antiquities Repatriation) in cultural organizations focusing on safeguarding cultural heritage. Programme Leader in a government-funded project for the development of legal research on “Copyright and NFTs”. Since June 2022, I've held the position of Research Associate at the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at the Cyprus University of Technology, where I lead and coordinate EU-funded Projects. As of June 2023, I am a PhD candidate at the Cyprus University of Technology on “Illicit Art Trade: Monitor, Combat, Restitution and Management”. Member of Europeana Research/Education/Copyright Communities.