Taygeti Michalakea is a Lecturer at the European Law and Governance School and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and a post-doctoral researcher at the EU Horizon funded project 'The Long Arms of Authoritarian States: Suppressing Independent Voices within and beyond their Borders. Previously, she held advisory roles with international organizations and civil society, including the United Nations, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Global Rights Compliance.