
Antiopi Vogiatzi is the Chief Risk Officer at the MGA and her duties encompass the development and overall management of the Risk Management function with the primary focus to support the Authority in developing and maintaining a risk-based approach to its operations.
Antiopi is also a member of the MGA’s Supervisory Council, the committee responsible for overseeing the regulatory function of the MGA.
During her previous years with the Authority, Antiopi has worked within the MGA’s Compliance and Enforcement Directorates, where she occupied the positions of Compliance Manager and Head of Investigations respectively. Her main areas of work included monitoring of the licensees’ compliance with gaming laws and regulations through compliance audits and ad-hoc checks, overseeing the carrying out of investigations on suspicious gaming activities, managing of the respective teams and drafting of policies and procedures.
Antiopi is a lawyer by profession, having graduated from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece in 1996 and subsequently admitted to the Athens Bar Association, and has since practiced actively as a legal professional until 2015 when she relocated to Malta.
Her work experience as an attorney-at-law in Athens included litigation and provision of legal services through own practice. She has a vast legal and regulatory background in telecoms, having been employed as an in-house lawyer of Vodafone Greece, where she also served as Anti-Bribery Champion and Compliance Specialist.