Full Name
Dirk Zetzsche
Job Title
Professor in Financial Law, ADA Chair in Financial Law (inclusive finance)
Company
University of Luxembourg
Speaker Bio
Prof. Dr. Zetzsche, LL.M., is Professor of Financial Law at the University of Luxembourg where he holds the ADA Chair in Financial Law (inclusive finance) since March 2016 and co-leads the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance’s House of Sustainable Governance & Markets. His research focuses on financial and corporate law, in particular FinTech/RegTech/CorpTech, collective investment schemes, as well as inclusive and sustainable finance.
Prof. Zetzsche is the author of more than 350 publications, including some globally leading articles on FinTech/RegTech, corporate governance, sustainable finance and two leading treatises on collective and alternative investment law and regulation, as well as financial law and cross-border financial services more generally. His latest book includes the third edition of “The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive” (WoltersKluwer, 2020), the second edition (2023) of a 3,000 pp. commentary on the German Collective Investment Schemes Act and the book “FinTech: Finance, Technology, and Regulation”, Cambridge University Press (US) (with Professors Ross P Buckley and Douglas W Arner) (November 2023). He currently works on an article-by-article commentary on EU Sustainable Finance Regulation (CUP UK, 2024), a monograph on the EU law and regulation of crypto-assets (CUP UK, 2024) and several publications on crypto-asset funds.
Prof. Zetzsche has held presentations and lectures at leading universities around the world, for instance (in alphabetical order) Cambridge University, Columbia University, Harvard University, LSE, National University of Singapore, Oxford University, University of Chicago, University College London, University of Hong Kong, University of Paris I / Sorbonne, University of Zürich, UNSW Sydney, Yale University.
Prof. Zetzsche has advised and presented to, inter alia, the Australian Securities / Investment Committee, the Bank of International Settlement, the Financial Stability Board, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Securities & Market Authority (ESMA), the European Banking Authority, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority,
IOSCO, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and several governments in Europe and beyond. He regularly cooperates with development organizations and agencies across the globe, including ADA, the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the German GIZ, the Toronto Centre, the Worldbank, the United Nations, and the Carnegie Establishment on International Peace, among others. He also functions as independent director for financial institutions.
In November 2023, he presented a Roadmap towards Inclusive Green Finance Implementation at the COP27 (together with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion). In February 2023, he made a case for financial inclusion in front of the United Nation as contribution to the UN’s Social Commission.
Prof. Zetzsche is listed on SSRN in the Top 20 law authors globally by downloads in the last twelve months, and by all-time downloads.
www.ssrn.com/author=357808
ORCID: Dirk Zetzsche (0000-0003-4051-7699) (orcid.org)
Prof. Zetzsche is the author of more than 350 publications, including some globally leading articles on FinTech/RegTech, corporate governance, sustainable finance and two leading treatises on collective and alternative investment law and regulation, as well as financial law and cross-border financial services more generally. His latest book includes the third edition of “The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive” (WoltersKluwer, 2020), the second edition (2023) of a 3,000 pp. commentary on the German Collective Investment Schemes Act and the book “FinTech: Finance, Technology, and Regulation”, Cambridge University Press (US) (with Professors Ross P Buckley and Douglas W Arner) (November 2023). He currently works on an article-by-article commentary on EU Sustainable Finance Regulation (CUP UK, 2024), a monograph on the EU law and regulation of crypto-assets (CUP UK, 2024) and several publications on crypto-asset funds.
Prof. Zetzsche has held presentations and lectures at leading universities around the world, for instance (in alphabetical order) Cambridge University, Columbia University, Harvard University, LSE, National University of Singapore, Oxford University, University of Chicago, University College London, University of Hong Kong, University of Paris I / Sorbonne, University of Zürich, UNSW Sydney, Yale University.
Prof. Zetzsche has advised and presented to, inter alia, the Australian Securities / Investment Committee, the Bank of International Settlement, the Financial Stability Board, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Securities & Market Authority (ESMA), the European Banking Authority, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority,
IOSCO, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and several governments in Europe and beyond. He regularly cooperates with development organizations and agencies across the globe, including ADA, the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the German GIZ, the Toronto Centre, the Worldbank, the United Nations, and the Carnegie Establishment on International Peace, among others. He also functions as independent director for financial institutions.
In November 2023, he presented a Roadmap towards Inclusive Green Finance Implementation at the COP27 (together with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion). In February 2023, he made a case for financial inclusion in front of the United Nation as contribution to the UN’s Social Commission.
Prof. Zetzsche is listed on SSRN in the Top 20 law authors globally by downloads in the last twelve months, and by all-time downloads.
www.ssrn.com/author=357808
ORCID: Dirk Zetzsche (0000-0003-4051-7699) (orcid.org)
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