Emilios Avgouleas

Professor Emilios Avgouleas holds the International Banking Law and Finance Chair at the University of Edinburgh, is the founding director of the Edinburgh LLM in International Banking Law and Finance and is a senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh's blockchain lab. He is a Member of the Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority (EBA) elected in the so-called "top-ranking" academics section.

Emilios Avgouleas is currently a visiting Research Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), a post designated for distinguished international scholars, and a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at the department of European Political Economy at LUISS in Rome. Between 2008 and 2017 he served, at different times, as a distinguished visiting professor, visiting professorial fellow and senior research scholar at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, the National University of Singapore, Hong Kong University and Duke Law School.

As a leading global authority in his field, Emilios has published extensively in the wider field of International and European Finance Law and Economics, banking theory and regulatory policy, systemic risk and leverage, blockchain derivatives markets and systemic risk distribution as well as behavioural economics and financial markets regulation.