Giuliano G. Castellano is an Associate Professor and a Deputy Director at Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) at the University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, where he teaches and conducts research in the fields of financial regulation, regulatory compliance, and international commercial law. He holds a Law Degree (Bocconi University, Italy), a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences (Ecole Polytechnique, France), a PhD in Law (University of Turin, Italy), and he is a Fellow at the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Giuliano was previously an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Warwick and an LSE Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Law. He has held visiting positions at Columbia Law School, University of Oxford, Paris-Dauphine, and at the Central European University.
Giuliano has published in renowned scholarly journals, such as the Modern Law Review, Law & Contemporary Problems, Hastings Law Journal, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. His research received support from competitive grant schemes in different jurisdictions. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of a project on “Creating Credit: Law Reforms, Policy Tensions, and Disruptive Technologies” funded by the General Research Fund of the Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council (RGC).
Beyond academia, Giuliano’s research has been informing the work international organisations, regulatory authorities, and central banks. He has been serving as a delegate and as an expert for UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT, where he has been contributing to the drafting of international standards to facilitate access to credit through secured lending. Moreover, under the lead of the World Bank Group, he has been involved in the implementation of legal and regulatory reforms supporting access to credit and financial stability in different jurisdictions across Asia-Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and Northern Africa, and Sub-Sharan Africa.
