Niamh Moloney

What she does outside the Panel

Niamh Moloney is Professor of Financial Markets Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

She specialises in EU financial market regulation and in particular in EU investor and consumer protection (financial services) law. Niamh has published widely in this field in leading international journals. She has also published a number of books, including the first book on EU financial market regulation (EC Securities Regulation, 2 ed, Oxford University Press, 2008) and a recent book on retail investor protection regulation (How to Protect Investors: Lessons from the EU and the UK, Cambridge University Press, 2010). Reflecting her interest in EU investor protection regulation, she is a Fellow (Household Finance) of the Centre for Financial Studies, Frankfurt.

Niamh is an academic member of the Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group which advises the European Securities and Markets Authority.

Positions held in the past

Niamh holds law degrees from Trinity College Dublin and Harvard Law School.

She has previously held academic positions at University College London, Queen’s University Belfast, and the University of Nottingham.

Reasons for joining the Panel

Niamh joined the Panel to help ensure that the achievement of a high quality and effective investor protection regime remains at the heart of UK financial market law and policy, at a time of massive regulatory reform.

Areas of particular interest on the Panel

Niamh is particularly interested in Panel’s work on EU legislation and in helping to ensure that the implementation of EU rules in the UK supports good outcomes for household investors.

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