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Honourable Speakers

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Prof Ross BUCKLEY (KPMG Law — King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at UNSW Sydney— the University of New South Wales Sydney) and Prof John ARMOUR ( Professor of Law and Finance, Oxford University, and Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute) for accepting our invitation to be the speaker of the IIDs FinReg Seminars.

  • Prof Ross BUCKLEY
  • Prof John ARMOUR
Prof Ross BUCKLEY
KPMG Law — King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at UNSW Sydney— the University of New South Wales Sydney		Prof John ARMOUR
Professor of Law and Finance, Oxford University, and Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute

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Prof John ARMOUR

Prof John ARMOUR is Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the  British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute.  He was previously a member of the Faculty of Law and the interdisciplinary Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He studied law (MA, BCL) at the University of Oxford and then at Yale Law School (LLM). He has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Auckland, the University of Chicago, Columbia Law School, the University of Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law in Hamburg, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Sydney. He is a member of the American Law Institute and an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association. Armour has published widely in the fields of company law, financial regulation, and corporate insolvency. His main research interest lies in the integration of legal and economic analysis, with particular emphasis on the impact on the real economy of changes in company law, corporate insolvency law and financial regulation. He serves as an Executive Editor of the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and the Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, and has been involved in policy-related projects commissioned by the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry (now BEIS), Financial Services Authority (now FCA) and Insolvency Service, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the World Bank. He served as a member of the European Commission’s Informal Company Law Expert Group from 2014-19.

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Prof Ross BUCKLEY

Prof Ross BUCKLEY is the KPMG Law — King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at UNSW Sydney. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and leads a $2.7 million five-year research project into the regulation of the data revolution. He chairs the Digital Finance Advisory Panel of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. He has consulted to governments departments in well over ten nations, including the U.S., and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar, at Yale and Duke.