Affiliated Lecturer
Interests
Legal aspects of digital assets/cryptoassets, distributed ledger technology, smart contracts; DeFi (decentralized finance)
Corporate finance law, company law and legal theory of the company, law and economics, game theory, behavioural studies, legal risk management
CV / Biography
Education
- PhD, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (Supervisor: Prof. Simon Deakin. Advisor: Prof. Marc Moore)
- Visiting doctoral researcher, Harvard Law School
- Aspirant scholar, Flanders Research Council and KULeuven
- LLM, Columbia Law School
- Master in Law, KULeuven
- Exchange student, NYU School of Law
Professional experience
- Slaughter & May Lecturer in Company Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (2019-21)
- Associate (corporate and competition law) at law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher Flom LLP in Brussels. Admitted to the Bar in Brussels (no longer active).
Awards
- Yorke Prize, Law Faculty, University of Cambridge 2020 (awarded for the PhD thesis "In pursuit of a better legal theory of the company - A data-driven, co-evolutionary and multiple equilibria model")
- Winner, Cambridge-McKinsey Risk Prize 2018
- Finalist, Global Peter Drucker Challenge 2016
- Scholarships for PhD research at Cambridge:
- Vice Chancellor Award, Cambridge Trust
- Arts & Humanities Research Council grant
- Cambridge Philosophical Society Grant
- Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust grant
- Scholarships and awards for LLM, Columbia
- Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar award, Columbia University
- Parker School of Achievement Certificate
- Belgian American Educational Foundation fellow
- Honorary Fulbright Fellow
- Fernand Lazard Fellow
- PEO IPS Scholarship