Seminar: Design Faults in Regulatory Systems

SPEAKER

Mr James Shipton
Senior Fellow
The University of Melbourne

James Shipton, the former Chair of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), is currently a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University Law School and a Fellow at The Ethics Centre, Sydney. James is also a member of the Advisory Board of Monash University’s Centre for Commercial Law and Regulation and a senior advisor to several financial services firms. Prior to leading ASIC, James was the Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems. Before Harvard, he was a Commission Member and Executive Director at the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), Hong Kong’s capital and financial markets regulator. Before the SFC, James held several roles in the financial sector, including nine years at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. James also practised corporate and financial law with Linklaters in Hong Kong and Bangkok, and Ashurst in Melbourne. James completed a BA in Asian studies at Melbourne University and a LLB (Hons) at Monash University; he undertook postgraduate studies at Hong Kong University. He was a Fellow at Harvard Law School and is a qualified solicitor in Hong Kong, England and Wales, and Victoria. In early 2025, James will be a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Commercial Law.

CHAIR

Associate Professor Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law 

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