Institute For Law And Finance

Dr. Philipp Paech is a full-time member of the Law Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Before entering academia he worked at the Financial Markets Directorate of the European Commission for four years. He specialises in the field of financial markets law and regulation. Dr. Paech was also a Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo University’s Graduate School for Law and Politics, secretary of the EU Clearing and Settlement Legal Certainty Group of the European Commission and Chairman of the G30 Clearing and Settlement Legal Committee. From 2002 to 2006, he was a member of the UNIDROIT Secretariat in Rome and co-ordinated work on what is today, the Geneva Securities Convention. Earlier work experience includes the Association of German Banks and the Boston Consulting Group. Dr, Paech holds a doctorate from the University of Bonn and obtained the Diploma of EU Studies from the University of Toulouse.

As an ILF Research Fellow, Dr. Paech teaches occasionally in Frankfurt and contributes to projects in the field of securities markets.

Email: P.Paech@lse.ac.uk