I.  CURRENT POSITION

• Professor of Law, Holder of the ADA Chair in Financial Law (Inclusive Finance), Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF), 8xav�������� of Luxembourg, from 1 March 2016.
• (non-executive) Director, Center for Business & Corporate Law, Faculty of Law, Heinrich Heine 8xav�������� Duesseldorf (HHU), since August 2012

  II. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

8xav�������� of Liechtenstein, Institute for Financial Services, 1/2010 – 2016

• Professor of Law, Propter Homines Chair for Banking and Securities Law, 8xav�������� of Liechtenstein / House of Finance, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
• Member of the 8xav��������’s Senate and the Habilitation Committee

Heinrich Heine 8xav�������� (HHU), Faculty of Law, Duesseldorf, Germany, 9/2004 – 2/2012

• Degree: Postdoctoral thesis (“Habilitation”)
• Thesis title: “Principles of Collective Investments”
• Supervisor: Professor Dr. Ulrich Noack, Professor Dr. Christian Kersting, LL.M. (Yale)

Provincial Court of Duesseldorf, Germany, 11/2004 – 12/2006

• Degree: Assessor Juris (Equivalent to Bar Exam)
• Training included work for the 10th Commercial Chamber (Germany), the Prosecution Department for Organized Crime, Hengeler Mueller Rechtsanwälte (Germany) and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (Toronto, ON)

8xav�������� of Toronto, Faculty of Law, ON, Canada (“U of T”), 8/2003 – 8/2004

• Degree: Master of Law (LL.M.)
• Thesis  “Explicit  and  Implicit  System  of  Corporate  Control”  (A+),  supervised  by  Prof. Iacobucci
• President of the Graduate Law Students’ Association

Heinrich Heine 8xav��������, Faculty of Law, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1999 – 2004

• Degree: Doctor Juris
• Grade: Summa Cum Laude [recognition for best dissertation of the year]
• Thesis: “Shareholder Information in Public Corporations“, supervised by Professor Dr. Ulrich Noack, Professor Dr. Gerd Krieger
• Disputation on “The Price of Justice – the Method of Law and Economics”

Heinrich Heine 8xav��������, Faculty of Law, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1994 – 1999

• Degree: First Juridical State Exam [J.D. equivalent] – with honours

Humboldt Gymnasium, Duesseldorf, Germany, 1985 – 1994

• Majors: Mathematics, History
• President of the Students’ Committee 1992/1993