Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist. After graduating from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1991, Dimitri began his legal career at the Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, first working from the firm’s New York offices and then joining the firm’s offices in Paris, France.
While working at Sullivan & Cromwell, Dimitri represented large financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, in connection with major security offerings. One such offering was the sale to the public of Allstate Insurance Company which was, at the time, the largest initial public offering of stock in United States history.
Dmitri was in Iran when the illegal war was being waged against the Islamic Republic, and had the chance to see first-hand what Iranians were experiencing.