Alexandros 

NTOVAS

Dr Alexandros X.M. Ntovas is an expert advocate and tenured academic in the areas of international law of the sea, admiralty, navigational freedoms and practice, marine environmental law and shipping regulation. He is a Professor associate, PhD, (at the level of Readership) in Maritime Law at the University of Southampton Law School, and the former Director of the Institute of Maritime Law, UK, and Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy. He first joined the University of Southampton in 2007 as a doctoral scholarship recipient to pursue his PhD, receiving immediately after its completion a full-time law lectureship in the Law School, where he was also a Governing Board Member of the Institute of Maritime Law. In 2016 he moved to the University of London, at Queen Mary’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies and the King’s College London, Dickson Poon School of Law, where he extensively lectured, developed new programmes, researched and provided consultancy in the areas of shipping, offshore energy and natural resources, law of the sea and ocean governance. In 2019 he rejoined the University of Southampton Law School as Professor Associate of Maritime Law, at the level of Readership, and the Director of the Institute of Maritime Law (2020–2023).

He has practiced public and administrative law, and acts on numerous occasions as a policy advisor to governments, including the European Union, the public sector and the shipping industry. His expertise lies in the law of the sea and ocean governance; admiralty, with a focus on wet shipping law; navigational freedoms and practice, as well as in issues regarding piracy and other aspects of contemporary safety and security of ships, ports and offshore installations.