Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal

Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal is a professor in banking and finance law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London. Prior to joining CCLS, he was a senior lecturer in financial law and the academic director at the Centre for Financial and Management Studies (SOAS), University of London and at the School of Law, University of Warwick. He taught in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various Schools of Law and Business Schools in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, China and Argentina as well as in professional training courses in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He has acted as a sovereign debt expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a senior insolvency expert for the World Bank – International Finance Corporation and as a consultant to several multilateral institutions in Washington, DC and Europe, central banks and sovereign states as well as in several international transactions with funds and law firms. He specialises in international finance and insolvency law. He is the author and editor of seven books and has extensively published in peer-reviewed journals. He sits on the editorial and advisory board of several law journals in the UK and US and is a member of national and international institutions and associations specialised in comparative commercial and insolvency law.