Dimitris Ziouvas serves as the Director of EUROCRIM. Dimitris holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Athens, a Master in Criminal Law from the University of Freiburg (Germany) and a PhD in Financial Criminal Law from the University of Cologne (Germany). He previously served as an Associate Professor in Criminal Law and Compliance at the Law School of the University of Sussex (UK). Dimitris is a research Fellow of the University of London.

Prof Ziouvas is a practising lawyer admitted in Greece and Germany, and a certified mediator and arbitrator. Dimitris is a certified fraud examiner and serves as compliance officer in multinational companies.

In 2016 he received the International Anti-Corruption Excellence Award in support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.