Dr. Eilis Ferran

Biography

Eilís Ferran is a Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). She has served as a Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust, which offers scholarships for postgraduate study at Cambridge funded by a large gift from the Gates Foundation. Ferran was the University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional International Relations, where she led the modernization of career paths and coordinated the University’s response to COVID-19. A distinguished legal academic, she has published extensively on UK, EU, and international financial regulation, company law, and corporate finance law. Her notable publications include 'Brexit Financial Services' (2017), the 'Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation' (2015), and 'The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis' (2012). Ferran has also contributed to the establishment of the LLM Corporate Finance law paper at Cambridge and has co-authored a new textbook, 'Principles of Corporate Finance Law' (2023). In addition to her academic roles, she serves as an independent non-executive director for Euroclear Holding SA/NV, and as a non-executive director at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge.

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