Dan Awrey is a University Lecturer in Law and Finance at Oxford University, where he is also a Fellow of Linacre College.  Dan holds degrees from Queen’s University (B.A., LL.B.), the University of Toronto (LL.M.) and Oxford University (D.Phil.).  Before entering academia, Dan served as Director of Law and Corporate Affairs for a global investment management firm and, prior to that, as an associate practicing securities and corporate finance law at a major Canadian law firm. Dan’s teaching and research interests reside primarily in the area of financial regulation and, more specifically, the institutions, instruments and markets which comprise what is often, and rather inelegantly, referred to as the shadow banking system.  Dan’s research and views in this area have been featured in publications including The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. In addition to his posts at Oxford, Dan is a Senior Visiting Lecturer at the National University of Singapore.  He is also a member of the research team of the Global Law in Finance Network co-funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Brigitte Haar is Professor of Private Law, German, European, International and Comparative Cor­porate and Financial Law at Goethe University Frankfurt. She directs the Doctorate/PhD-pro­gram on Law and Economics of Money and Finance, is a member of the executive committee of the House of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt, and a fellow of the Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt. Prior to joining Goethe University Law School, she was a research associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for comparative and international private law. Brigitte Haar received her doctoral and postdoctoral degrees from the University of Hamburg. She holds a master of laws degree from the University of Chicago and pursued postdoctoral research at Yale Law School with a Max Planck fellowship awarded for her prize-winning doctoral dissertation. More recently, she served as Bok Visiting International Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and will be visiting Columbia Law School in the spring of 2014. Her principal research interests are comparative corporate governance, financial regulation and European integration, including EU financial regulation, corporate governance codes, executive compensation and retail financial services. She is a founding editor and current member of the editorial board of the European Business Organization Law Review and a member of the consumer council and the administrative board of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).

Katharina Pistor is Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and director of Columbia Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation. She graduated from the University of Freiburg law school (Germany), holds an LLM degree from the University of London an MPA degree from the Kennedy School of Government (Harvard) and a doctoral degree in law from the University of Munich. She has held research positions at the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Comparative Private Law. Prior to joining the Columbia Law faculty in 2001 she taught at the Kennedy School of Government. Pistor has also taught as lecturer or visitor at Harvard Law School, the Universities of Pennsylvania, and NYU. She is a member of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought, the board of directors of the European Corporate Governance Institute and the Curatorium of Bucerius Law School, a Research Associate of the Center for Economic Policy Research, and serves on several editorial boards, including Economics of Transition, Columbia’s Journal of Transnational Law, the American Journal of Comparative Law, and the European Business Organization Law Review. In 2012 she was co-recipient of the Max Planck Research Award on International Financial Regulation. She is also the recipient of research grants by the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on comparative law with emphasis on emerging markets, the legal construction of financial markets, and law and development. She has published widely in leading law and social science journals and has co-authored and edited several books.