Ross P. Buckley

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Ross P. Buckley is a Laureate Fellow and a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). [1]

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He was appointed to the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia for a five‑year term in July 2023. [2] The Payments System Board directs payments system policy for the Reserve Bank of Australia.

As an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, he leads a $2.6 million five-year research project into the regulation of the data revolution. [3] He is a lead investigator on an ARC Discovery Project on China’s Belt and Road Initiative and on major research projects in Hong Kong and Qatar on the regulation of FinTech. [4] [5] [6]

Early life and education

Buckley was born in Brisbane. He has degrees in Economics and Law (with honours) from the University of Queensland. He completed a PhD at UNSW, and, more recently, an LLD at the University of Melbourne. [7]

Career

Buckley began his career in Brisbane with the predecessor firm to Allens Linklaters. He was with Deacons in Hong Kong for a year, before moving to New York City as an associate at Davis Polk for three years. He is admitted to practise law in Queensland and the Southern District of New York. [8]

Ross joined the law faculty at Bond University, where he led the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade and Finance for seven years. [9]

Buckley joined the law faculty at UNSW in 2007. He was appointed a Scientia Professor and to the King & Wood Mallesons Chair in International Finance Law in 2013. In 2018, KPMG joined an expanded sponsorship of this position, which was renamed the KPMG Law – King & Wood Mallesons Professorship of Disruptive Innovation. [10] He held this Chair for a decade, ending in 2023.

Buckley began serving his five-year term on the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia in July 2023. [11] He has chaired the Digital Finance Advisory Panel of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission since 2017.[ citation needed ]

Research and publications

Buckley's research has attracted around A$10 million in grant funding. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] His earlier work was mostly on the regulation of the global financial system. This culminated in a book with Douglas Arner, From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial System and Regulatory Failure, published by Kluwer. [22]

In 2013, he started researching the regulation of mobile money in developing countries, in response in part to a request from Timor Leste for assistance on these issues. [23]

In 2015, he wrote an article with Douglas Arner and Janos Barberis that has been cited over 1,000 times on the Evolution of Fintech. [24]

Buckley has written five books, edited five books, and written over 160 book chapters and articles in leading journals in all major jurisdictions. Of late, much of his research has been with Douglas Arner of the University of Hong Kong and Dirk Zetzsche of the University of Luxembourg.[ citation needed ]

Buckley has twice been a Fulbright Scholar, at Yale and Duke. [25]

Consultancies

Buckley has served as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. [26] [27]

He has consulted to government departments in 12 nations, including, in the US, to the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. [28]

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References

  1. ↑ "2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Ross Buckley".
  2. ↑ "Payments System Board appointments". 28 July 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Ross Buckley".
  4. ↑ "'China's Belt and Road Initiative: A New Model of Economic Governance?'".
  5. ↑ "FinTech and RegTech: Building a resilient, inclusive and competitive legal and regulatory framework for 21st century finance in Qatar".
  6. ↑ "Balancing the Opportunities and Risks of Financial Technology: FinTech Regulation and Policy" . Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  7. ↑ "Australian Fulbright Scholars 2011 - Ross Buckley" . Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  8. ↑ "ECGI Global - Profile". December 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  9. ↑ "'Four pillars bank policy set to stay'". 25 June 2005.
  10. ↑ "KWM and KPMG Law to jointly support UNSW Sydney Chair in Disruptive Innovation and Law".
  11. ↑ "Payments System Board appointments". 28 July 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  12. ↑ "2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Ross Buckley".
  13. ↑ "Balancing the Opportunities and Risks of Financial Technology: FinTech Regulation and Policy".
  14. ↑ "'China's Belt and Road Initiative: A New Model of Economic Governance?'".
  15. ↑ "FinTech and RegTech: Building a resilient, inclusive and competitive legal and regulatory framework for 21st century finance in Qatar". 30 June 2019.
  16. ↑ "Regulating a Revolution: A New Regulatory Model for Digital Finance".
  17. ↑ "Systemic Responses to Global Financial Instability: New Thinking and Measures by Which Australia Can Address the Challenges of Globalised Capital".
  18. ↑ "Enhancing Hong Kong's Strategic Position as a Regional and International Business Centre".
  19. ↑ "The International Law Library on WorldLII".
  20. ↑ "Regulatory responses to the global financial crisis: An Australian perspective".
  21. ↑ "Debt-for-development Exchanges as a Means to Enhance the Security of Australia and the Region".
  22. ↑ From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial System and Regulatory Failure. International banking and finance law series. Kluwer Law International ; Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Aspen Publishers. 2011. ISBN   9789041133540. OCLC   742506598.
  23. ↑ "Banking the Unbanked in Timor-Leste".
  24. ↑ "Google Scholar - The Evolution of Fintech: A New Post-Crisis Paradigm?".
  25. ↑ "Australian Fulbright Scholars 2011 - Ross Buckley".
  26. ↑ "Asian Development Bank Knowledge Events - Ross Buckley".
  27. ↑ "UNSW co-authors major financial inclusion report". 4 November 2018.
  28. ↑ "2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Ross Buckley" . Retrieved 12 March 2024.
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