Kevin Paul Zervos (; born November 1953) is a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong. He previously served as Director of Public Prosecutions of the Department of Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from March 2011 to September 2013. Zervos was a veteran of frontline criminal prosecutions spanning two decades and a criminal courtroom advocate and human rights specialist. Personal life and education Zervos, a Melbourne-born Australian expatriate of Greek descent, made his name as one of the Hong Kong Government's most prolific senior advocates, leading the charge in many of the most controversial cases before courts at all levels. Zervos graduated in Science (1975) and Law (1977) from Monash University. He attained his Master of Laws (Human Rights) from the University of Hong Kong in 2009. Career In 1984, Zervos began work in Australia with the Special Prosecutor's office responsible for the investigation and prosecution of large scale revenue frauds. From 1985, he was Senior Assistant Director of the office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions at the Melbourne and Sydney offices where he was in charge of the Major Fraud Section. From 1989 to 1992, he was General Counsel to the Independent Commission Against Corruption in New South Wales before moving to Hong Kong. In 1992, Zervos joined the then Attorney General's Chambers in Hong Kong, initially attached to the Commercial Crime Unit specialising in white-collar crime, then as Head of Appeals specialising in Human Rights, and later as Chief of Staff of the department's Prosecutions Division. In May 2003, Zervos was appointed as Senior Counsel in Hong Kong. He became Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions in 2008. Zervos has prosecuted in many high-profile cases, including the brutal assassination of a triad hit squad of a key ICAC witness in one of the world's biggest tobacco-smuggling cases, complex fraud and corruption cases and human and constitutional rights appeals. DPP After taking office as Director of Public Prosecutions in 2011, Zervos was "determined to respond to growing public demands for more transparency in the justice system" in Hong Kong. The department's Prosecutions Division, under Zervos' leadership, held its first and second Prosecutions Week in 2012 and 2013, as an initiative to "reach out to the community, especially the young, to explain and discuss the criminal justice system and to strengthen the commitment to the rule of law." The department also organised