Spyridon V Bazinas is a lecturer, author, and independent consultant advising States and national and international organizations on trade law reform matters. He has been the Secretary of the UNCITRAL Working Group VI (Security Interests) when it prepared the Guide to Enactment of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (2017), the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (2016), the UNCITRAL Guide on the Implementation of a Security Rights Registry (2013), the Supplement on Security Interests in Intellectual Property Rights (2010), and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions (2007). He also served as Secretary of the Working Group on International Contract Practices, when it prepared the draft Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade (2001). He has also been involved in the Commission's work on insolvency, bank guarantees, procurement, and electronic commerce. He has also provided technical assistance to States and lectured all over the world on a variety of UNCITRAL work topics. For a number of years, he has been teaching a course on secured financing (including insolvency and private international law) at the Law Schools of the University of Vienna and Sigmund Freud University in Vienna, Austria. Mr Bazinas has co- authored or co- edited more than ten books and has published more than fifty articles on various international trade law topics and, in particular, on secured financing.
Guillermo Caballero is Professor of Law at the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, and was formerly Professor of Law at the Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain and Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, Chile. Caballero graduated in Law from the Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile (1996), post- graduated in Economy and Finance from the University of Chile (2002) and obtained his Juris Doctor degree cum laude from the Autónoma University of Madrid, Spain (2010). His main areas of specialization are commercial law, corporate law, insolvency law, and securities regulation. He published La adquisición a non domino de valores anotados en cuenta (The Acquisition A Non Domino of Intermediated Securities) (Madrid: Civitas, 2010) and La custodia en el mercado de valores (The Custody of Intermediated Securities) (Santiago: Thomson Reuters, 2016).
Michel Deschamps is counsel at the Canadian law firm McCarthy Tétrault LLP and associate professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Montreal, where he teaches banking law. He participates as Canadian delegate or expert in law reform projects in the area of secured transactions sponsored by UNCITRAL and Unidroit. Deschamps chairs the editorial board of the Québec Bar law review and the secured transactions committee of the Québec Bar. He is a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He also appears in most leading lawyers' guides as one of the leading lawyers in Canada in areas of banking and financial services. In October 2013, he received a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Montreal.
Francisco Garcimartín is a Chair Professor of Private International Law at Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. He has published in most of the leading law journals on different aspects of private international law and cross- border transactions. He has represented the Spanish Government in different international organizations, such as Unidroit, UNCITRAL, Hague Conference, and the Counsel of the European Union. He collaborates as consultant for Linklaters SLP.
Florence Guillaume is a Full Professor of civil and private international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) since 2006. Her research and publications cover a wide array of topics, including international intermediated securities law, international corporate law, national and international succession law, international trust disputes, and legal issues of digitalization. In 2020, she founded the LexTech Institute, which is an academic centre dedicated to research and training in digital technologies. Before entering academics, Professor Guillaume practiced as a lawyer at the Geneva Bar and the Zurich Bar. She also worked as a Deputy to the Head of the Private International Law Department at the Swiss Federal Ministry of Justice.
Matthias Haentjens is a full professor of law at Leiden Law School and director of the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law since 2012. Prior to joining Leiden Law School, he was an attorney with De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Matthias Haentjens obtained a Master degree in Greek and Latin at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in law also at the University of Amsterdam and was a visiting scholar at Université de Paris II (Panthéon- Assas), Harvard Law School, New York University School of Law, and Ghent University. He has been a member of the Expert Group on Securities and Claims at the European Commission, of the Consultative Working Group on Investment Management at ESMA, and a short term consultant with the World Bank. Since 2016, he has been appointed a deputy judge in the Court of Amsterdam.
Erica Johansson is working as a Legal Counsel at Swedbank AB (publ) in Stockholm. She has extensive experience in derivatives transactions, clearing, capital markets transactions, and regulatory matters. Prior to joining Swedbank AB (publ), she worked as a Senior Legal Counsel at the Swedish Securities Markets Association and prior to that at Nasdaq in Stockholm. She has worked as a Partner at one of the larger Swedish law firms and at two international law firms in London. She holds a Master of Laws from Stockholm University and a PhD from London University on Property Rights in Investment Securities and the Doctrine of Specificity. She is a leading expert in the area of intermediated securities and has acted as a legal consultant to the World Bank.
Hideki Kanda is Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo. His main areas of specialization include commercial law, corporate law, banking regulation, and securities regulation. Mr Kanda served as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School in 1989, 1991, and 1993, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in 1996. He is chairman of the Financial Council at the Financial Services Agency of Japan. Mr Kanda's recent publications include Reinier Kraakman et al., The Anatomy of Corporate Law (Oxford: 3rd edn, Oxford University Press, 2014) and Hideki Kanda et al, Official Commentary on the Unidroit Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). He has also written many articles in English in the areas of commercial law, corporate law, banking regulation, and securities regulation.
Thomas Keijser is Senior Researcher at the law faculty of the Radboud University in the Netherlands. From 2007- 2012, he worked as Senior Officer, later Consultant, at Unidroit. He is admitted to the Dutch Bar and worked as a legal officer at a project of the European Union in the Russian Federation. Keijser contributed to the Official Commentary on the Unidroit Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) and the 2017 Unidroit Legislative Guide on Intermediated Securities, and published widely in the field of financial law. He was visiting faculty at universities in Germany, Greece, Japan, the Russian Federation, and the United States, and organized several international conferences. He holds a doctoral degree in law from Radboud University and a master's degree in Russian literature from the University of Amsterdam (cum laude).
Hans Kuhn is a practicing attorney in Zurich (Switzerland). He specializes in banking and financial market law with a focus on banking and fintech regulation and blockchain law. He is also advising a number of blockchain- based digital asset projects and worked with the governments in Liechtenstein and Switzerland on blockchain legislation. Before joining private practice in 2014, he served as chief legal counsel for Swiss National Bank, Switzerland's central bank, for more than thirteen years. He has extensive experience as a member of national and international expert groups on matters such as securities law, bank resolution, derivatives, and netting legislation. He is the author of a number of books and numerous articles on securities and secured transactions law. He has been teaching secured transactions law and financial and monetary law at Lucerne University. A graduate of the University of Zurich in 1993, Hans Kuhn was admitted to the bar in Switzerland in 1995. In 1998 he received his doctorate summa cum laude from University of Zurich. He holds an LLM- Degree from Tulane University School of Law (New Orleans, 2001).
Klaus Löber is the Chair of the CCP Supervisory Committee (CCPSC) at the European Securities Markets Authority in Paris. The CCPSC is responsible for enhancing supervisory convergence in respect of EU central counterparties (CCPs) and ensuring a resilient CCP landscape. It is also responsible for the new supervisory responsibilities of ESMA regarding third- country CCPs, with the objective to ensure an adequate monitoring and management of the risk they may pose to the EU. Previously, Löber was Head of Oversight at the European Central Bank in charge of safeguarding the safety and efficiency of payment, clearing, and settlement arrangements as well as Head of Secretariat of the Committee on Payment and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), a global standard- setting body for financial market infrastructures hosted at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. Earlier work practice also includes the European Commission DG Internal Market, the Deutsche Bundesbank, and private practice. Löber was a founding Secretary of the European Financial Markets Lawyers Group. He is co- editor of various legal journals and has written numerous publications on financial market legal and regulatory issues.
Eva Micheler is a Reader in Law at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Universitätsprofessor at the University of Economics in Vienna where she took Habilitation in 2003. She is also a member of the board of the Institute of Central and East European Business Law in Vienna, and teaches regularly at the University of Vienna, the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, and the Buccerius Law School in Hamburg. Before joining LSE, Micheler was also a fellow at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford in the context of the EU Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Programme. She has written widely on company and comparative law in both English and German. Her work was cited by the UK Supreme Court in 2010 and by the Austrian Oberster Gerichtshof on numerous occasions. She contributed to Gower and Davies, Principles of Modern Company Law (Sweet and Maxwell, 2012) and to Gore- Browne on Companies (Jordan Publishing).
Charles Mooney is a leading legal US scholar in the fields of commercial law and bankruptcy law. He is the Charles A Heimbold, Jr Professor of Law at Pennsylvania University School of Law. He served as US Delegate at the diplomatic Conference for the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Aircraft Protocol thereto and at the diplomatic Conference for the Geneva Securities Convention, where he was a member of the Drafting Committee. He is co- author and co- editor of the Official Commentary on the Geneva Securities Convention. Mooney was honoured for his contributions to the uniform law process by the Oklahoma City School of Law and was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.
Guy Morton is an English solicitor and was, until his retirement, a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. He was Senior Partner of the firm from 2006 to 2010 and for many years before that led the firm's financial services group. He served on the European Commission's Forum Group on Collateral and assisted with the preparation of the Financial Collateral Directive; he was also a member of the Commission's Legal Certainty Group on EU clearing and settlement and is a former member of the UK Financial Markets Law Panel. He represented the United Kingdom in the development of the Hague Securities Convention and the Geneva Securities Convention, in each case serving also as a member of the Drafting Committee.
Marcel Peeters is not only a lawyer but also an economist, having received his PhD in economics from Cambridge University in 1984. He held university lectureships in economics before taking his law degree at Leiden University in 1994, when he switched to the legal profession. Initially, he focused on Supreme Court litigation (cassatie) at the Dutch law firm Houthoff. Subsequently, and in particular after his move to NautaDutilh (where he worked until 2012), he specialized in financial law (both private law and regulatory), with an emphasis on derivatives law and capital and liquidity requirements. He was Professor of Derivatives Law at the University of Amsterdam from 2010 until 2020.
Karen Saperstein is a securities clearing expert and is currently the Vice President- Operations for the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.11 Ms Saperstein served as General Counsel for National Securities Clearing Corporation. During her tenure she developed and brought to market many products including ACATS and Fund/ Serv. While at NSCC, Ms Saperstein created and obtained regulatory approval from the FSA for European Central CounterParty, a UK based clearing corporation, and negotiated international clearing agreements with The London Stock Exchange, Caja de Valores, Japan Securities Clearing Corporation, The Stock Exchange of Singapore, and Monte Titoli. Ms Saperstein has been a featured speaker at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Annual Payment Systems Conference. Ms Saperstein has a JD degree from Fordham University School of Law, served as an arbitrator for the NYC Small Claims Court, and is a certified mediator.
Maria Vermaas obtained academic qualifications in South Africa at the University of Pretoria (BLC, 1981; LLB, 1983) and the University of South Africa (LLM, 1987; LLD, 1995). She earned her doctorate with a thesis entitled Aspects of the Dematerialisation of Listed Shares in South African Law. Vermaas held the position of Head of Legal and Regulatory at Strate Ltd, South Africa's Central Securities Depository and serves as an Executive Member of this organization. Maria represented South Africa in the Unidroit meetings relating to the Geneva Securities Convention, where she served on various sub- committees and as a Vice- President of the diplomatic Conference that adopted the Convention. Vermaas retired at Strate in 2019 and is currently acting as legal consultant to the World Bank and National Treasury on financial market legal matters in South Africa.
