Emilios Avgouleas holds the International Banking Law and Finance Chair at the University of Edinburgh where he founded and has directed the LL.M. in International Banking Law and Finance. An internationally renowned scholar in the field of banking theory and financial regulation he has also published extensively in the fields of International and European finance law and economics, behavioural finance, and global economic governance. He is a Member of the Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority (EBA) elected in the so-called 'top-ranking' academics section. He has held visiting posts with leading academic institutions and he is currently a visiting Research Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow at the School of European Political Economy, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali 'Guido Carli'. He holds an LL.M. and a Ph.D. in Law and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science. David C. Donald has been a Professor in the Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2008. From 2003 until 2008, David taught at the Institute for Law and Finance of Goethe University. For the decade preceding that he worked as a commercial, corporate and securities lawyer in Washington, Milan, Rome and Frankfurt. David's publications focus on market structure, securities clearing and settlement, corporate law and comparative law. He holds a Ph.D. in Law and an LL.M. from the Goethe University, a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The State University of New York at Buffalo.