SPEAKER PROFILE

Hal S. Scott is the Emeritus Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School (HLS), where he taught from 1975-2018. His HLS courses were on Capital Markets Regulation, International Finance, the Payment System and Securities Regulation. He is currently an adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he teaches Capital Market Regulation. He also taught International Finance at the Boston University Law School in Spring 2020.

He has a B.A. from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School, 1965), an M.A. from Stanford University in Political Science (1967), and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (1972). In 1974-1975, before joining Harvard, he clerked for Justice Byron White.

He is the Chairman and President of the Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS), founded in 1986. Besides doing research, the Program organizes the annual invitation-only U.S.-China, U.S.-Europe, and U.S.-Japan Symposia on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century, attended by financial system leaders in the concerned countries. The Program has also organized special events on important topics like international accounting standards, enforcement and ring fencing. HLS is the non-financial sponsor or these events. In addition, PIFS partners with Executive Education at Harvard Law School in offering executive education for financial regulators.

Professor Scott’s books include the law school textbook International Finance: Transactions, Policy and Regulation (23rd ed. Foundation Press, forthcoming 2020); Connectedness and Contagion (M.I.T. Press 2016) and The Global Financial Crisis (Foundation Press 2009).