Emilios Avgouleas

Professor Emilios Avgouleas is the inaugural holder of the International Banking Law and Finance Chair at the University of Edinburgh, the director of the Edinburgh LLM in International Banking Law and Finance and a Research Associate at the Levy Institute. He is also a Member the Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority. Emilios is an acknowledged expert on financial market regulation, banking law and finance, and global economic governance. He has given keynote lectures, research seminars, and conference papers in a plethora of leading academic and public policy institutions including Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge and the Bank of England, the BIS, and the Minneapolis Fed. In the calendar year of 2016 he has served as a senior research scholar at Yale Law School and dist. visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, He is currently a visiting prof. fellow at Harvard Law School. He has published extensively in the wider field of International and European finance law and economics and behavioural finance. He is the author of a large number of scholarly articles and of two monographs: /Governance of Global Financial Markets: The Law, the Economics, the Politics/ (Cambridge, 2012); /The Mechanics and Regulation of Market Abuse: A Legal and Economic Analysis/ (Oxford, 2005). He authored Part 1 of /Principles of Banking Law/(Oxford, 3rd ed., Dec. 2016) and he co-authored & co-edited: /Reconceptualizing Global Finance and its Regulation/ (Cambridge, 2016).