Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal is a Professor in Banking and Finance Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) at 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 Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. He taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at various law schools and business schools in the United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, France, and Argentina as well as professional training courses in Africa, Asia, and Europe. He has acted as a Sovereign Debt Expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Senior Insolvency Expert for the World Bank / IFC, and as a consultant to central banks, sovereign states, several multilateral institutions in Washington, DC and Europe as well as in several international transactions with law firms. He specializes in international finance and insolvency law. He is the author/editor of seven books and has extensively published in peer-reviewed journals. He sits on the editorial/advisory board of several law journals in the UK and US and is a member of national and international institutions and associations that specialize in comparative commercial and insolvency law.