{"id":12481,"date":"2020-03-16T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.cuhk.edu.hk\/app\/?page_id=12481"},"modified":"2020-09-02T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T03:15:59","slug":"advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.cuhk.edu.hk\/app\/areas-projects\/about-cfred\/advisory-board\/","title":{"rendered":"ADVISORY BOARD"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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CENTRE FOR FINANCIAL REGULATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (CFRED)<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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DR. MICHAEL AITKEN, AM<\/span><\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Mike is the academic turned entrepreneur who sold the SMARTS Group to NASDAQ in 2010, having previously established SIRCA (www.sirca.org.au<\/a>) and the CMCRC (www.cmcrc.com<\/a>) and co-developed TRTH (https:\/\/tickhistory.thomsonreuters.com).\u00a0 He established Capital Market Technologies to act as a venture fund and invest in start-ups that enhance market transparency and ultimately increase the fairness and efficiency of different marketplaces, such as markets for mortgages (www.dealmax.com.au<\/a>), supply chains (www.ordermentum.com<\/a>), building management (www.cimenviro.com<\/a>) and digital currency trading (www.digi.cash<\/a>). He has also moved into the detection of fraud in the health and general insurance markets (www.loricahealth.com<\/a>).<\/p>

His latest work is the Market Quality Dashboard (www.mqdashboard.com<\/a>). It moves from fraud to the efficacy of security market design. Similarly, in the health domain work is moving from the detection of fraud to the efficacy of health intervention.<\/p>

He is the lead expert in the consulting arm of the CMCRC (www.cmcrc.com\\consulting<\/a>), which provides specialist services in the context of allegations of insider trading, market manipulation and continuous disclosure breaches. He was inducted as a member of the Order of Australia in 2014 In recognition of his significant service to the education, business and finance sectors of the nation, and was awarded the Prime Minister’s prize for Innovation in Science in 2016.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prof. John Armour has been Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University since July 2007, having previously been a Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity Hall at Cambridge University. He studied law (MA, BCL) at the University of Oxford before completing his LLM at Yale Law School. He has been a regular Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and has also held visiting posts at Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Bologna.<\/p>

He has published widely in the fields of corporate law, corporate finance, and corporate insolvency. His main research interest lies in the integration of legal and economic analysis, with particular emphasis on comparative dimensions. He has been involved in policy related projects with the UK’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, Financial Services Authority, and Insolvency Services, and the European Commission. He is also Academic Director for Oxford’s new MSc in Law and Finance (http:\/\/www.law.ox.ac.uk\/mlf\/ebrochure\/index.htm<\/a>). This is a joint venture between the Law Faculty and the Said Business School that aims to provide a rigorous and engagement at the interception between law, finance and economics sought by law firms, regulators, and financial institutions. The first cohort of outstanding students, including several from South-East Asia, will be starting in September 2010.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prof. Douglas Arner holds a BA from Drury College (where he studied literature, economics and political science), a JD (cum laude) from Southern Methodist University, an LLM (with distinction) in banking and finance law and a PhD from the University of London.<\/p>

Douglas W. Arner is a Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong and Project Coordinator of a major five-year project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme on \u201cEnhancing Hong Kong\u2019s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre\u201d. In addition, he is Co-Director of the Duke University-HKU Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law, and a Senior Visiting Fellow of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Douglas served as Head of the HKU Department of Law from 2011 to 2014 and from 2006 to 2011 he was the Director of HKU\u2019s Asian Institute of International Financial Law, which he co-founded in 1999 along with the LLM in Corporate and Financial Law (of which he serves as Director).<\/p>

He has published thirteen books, including \u00a0<\/span>Finance in Asia: Institutions, Regulation and Policy <\/em>(Routledge 2013), \u00a0<\/span>From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial Crisis and Regulatory Failure <\/em>(Kluwer 2011), and \u00a0<\/span>Financial Stability, Economic Growth and the Role of Law<\/em> \u00a0<\/span>(Cambridge University Press 2007), and more than 100 articles, chapters and reports on international financial law and regulation. His recent papers are available at\u00a0 <\/span>http:\/\/ssrn.com\/authors=524849<\/a>.<\/p>

Douglas is a member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council and of the International Advisory Board of the Australian Centre for International Finance and Regulation. He has served as a consultant with, among others, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC,\u00a0and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and has lectured, co-organised conferences and seminars and\u00a0been involved with\u00a0financial sector reform projects in over 20 economies\u00a0in Africa, Asia and Europe. He has been a visiting professor or fellow at the Universities of London, McGill, Melbourne, New South Wales, Singapore and Zurich, as well as the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prof. Andreas Cahn studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt\/Main and at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned an LL.M. After his Second State Examination in Frankfurt he worked for 6 years as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt. During this period of time he wrote his doctoral thesis on problems of managers\u2019 liability (published in 1996) as well as his post-doctoral thesis on legal aspects intra-group financing (published in 1998).<\/p>

In 1996 he took up the Chair of Civil Law, Commerce Law and Corporate Law at the University of Mannheim. Since October 2002 he is Director of the Institute for Law and Finance at Goethe-University in Frankfurt. He has published extensively on corporate law, capital markets law, the law of products liability, general civil law as well as on civil procedure. He is co-publisher of \u201cDer Konzern\u201d, a law journal focusing on company law, taxation and accounting of corporate groups, of \u201cCorporate Finance law\u201d, a journal with a focus on current legal issues corporate finance, co-editor of the Institute for Law and Finance Series and member of the editorial board of the law journal \u201cEuropean Company Law\u201d.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ms. Chan is a partner in Davis Polk\u2019s Corporate Department, resident in Hong Kong. Her practice includes advising issuers and underwriters on capital markets transactions and advising on securities, corporate and governance matters, generally.<\/p>

Before joining the firm in 2010, Ms. Chan served as a senior vice president of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, where she led the IPO Transactions Department of the Listing Division. Previously, she was an in-house counsel at Morgan Stanley, where she was responsible for overseeing their capital markets transactions in Asia.<\/p>

Ms. Chan regularly speaks on capital markets and issues associated with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Her recent speaking roles have included:<\/p>