Ross P. Buckley

Buckley was born in Brisbane. He has degrees in Economics and Law (with honours) from the University of Queensland. He completed a PhD at UNSW, and, more recently, an LLD at the University of Melbourne.{{cite web | url = https://www.fulbright.org.au/alumni/profiles/2011-alumni/| title = Australian Fulbright Scholars 2011 - Ross Buckley|access-date=12 March 2024}}

Buckley began his career in Brisbane with the predecessor firm to Allens Linklaters. He was with Deacons in Hong Kong for a year, before moving to New York City as an associate at Davis Polk for three years. He is admitted to practise law in Queensland and the Southern District of New York.{{cite web |url = https://www.ecgi.global/users/ross-buckley |title = ECGI Global - Profile| date=December 2022 |access-date=12 March 2024}}

Ross joined the law faculty at Bond University, where he led the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade and Finance for seven years.{{cite web |url = https://www.theage.com.au/business/four-pillars-bank-policy-set-to-stay-20050625-ge0elj.html |title = 'Four pillars bank policy set to stay'| date=25 June 2005 }}

Buckley joined the law faculty at UNSW in 2007. He was appointed a Scientia Professor and to the King & Wood Mallesons Chair in International Finance Law in 2013. In 2018, KPMG joined an expanded sponsorship of this position, which was renamed the KPMG Law – King & Wood Mallesons Professorship of Disruptive Innovation.{{cite web | url = https://www.kwm.com/au/en/about-us/media-center/kwm-and-kpmg-law-to-jointly-support-unsw-sydney-chair-in-disruptive-innovation-and-law.html |title = KWM and KPMG Law to jointly support UNSW Sydney Chair in Disruptive Innovation and Law}} He held this Chair for a decade, ending in 2023.

Buckley began serving his five-year term on the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia in July 2023.{{cite web |url=https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/jim-chalmers-2022/media-releases/payments-system-board-appointments | title = Payments System Board appointments|date=2023-07-28 |access-date=2023-08-05}} He has chaired the Digital Finance Advisory Panel of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission since 2017.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

Buckley's research has attracted around A$10 million in grant funding.{{cite web | url = https://www.arc.gov.au/funding-research/funding-schemes/discovery-program/australian-laureate-fellowships/2020-laureate-profile-professor-ross-buckley |title = 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Ross Buckley}}{{cite web | url = https://repository.hku.hk/cris/project/hkugrant126291 | title = Balancing the Opportunities and Risks of Financial Technology: FinTech Regulation and Policy}}{{cite web |title='China's Belt and Road Initiative: A New Model of Economic Governance?' |url=https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP220101632}}{{cite web | url = https://www.gulf-times.com/story/635403/qu-awarded-international-fintech-grant-success |title = FinTech and RegTech: Building a resilient, inclusive and competitive legal and regulatory framework for 21st century finance in Qatar| date=30 June 2019 }}{{cite web | url = https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP150100269 | title = Regulating a Revolution: A New Regulatory Model for Digital Finance}}{{cite web | url = https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP130103501 | title = Systemic Responses to Global Financial Instability: New Thinking and Measures by Which Australia Can Address the Challenges of Globalised Capital}}{{cite web |title=Enhancing Hong Kong's Strategic Position as a Regional and International Business Centre |url=https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/funding_opport/trs/funded_research/trs2.html}}{{cite web | url = https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LE140100011 | title = The International Law Library on WorldLII}}{{cite web | url = https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LE140100011 | title = Regulatory responses to the global financial crisis: An Australian perspective}}{{cite web | url = https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0881431 | title = Debt-for-development Exchanges as a Means to Enhance the Security of Australia and the Region}} His earlier work was mostly on the regulation of the global financial system. This culminated in a book with Douglas Arner, From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial System and Regulatory Failure, published by Kluwer.{{cite book | url = https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5866380 |title = From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial System and Regulatory Failure| series=International banking and finance law series | year=2011 | publisher=Kluwer Law International ; Sold and distributed in North, Central and South America by Aspen Publishers | isbn=9789041133540 | oclc=742506598 }}

In 2013, he started researching the regulation of mobile money in developing countries, in response in part to a request from Timor Leste for assistance on these issues.{{cite web | url = https://clmr.unsw.edu.au/article/digital-financial-services/banking-the-unbanked-in-timor-leste |title = Banking the Unbanked in Timor-Leste}}

In 2015, he wrote an article with Douglas Arner and Janos Barberis that has been cited over 1,000 times on the Evolution of Fintech.{{cite web | url = https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=10370588727143782538&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en|title = Google Scholar - The Evolution of Fintech: A New Post-Crisis Paradigm?}}

Buckley has written five books, edited five books, and written over 160 book chapters and articles in leading journals in all major jurisdictions. Of late, much of his research has been with Douglas Arner of the University of Hong Kong and Dirk Zetzsche of the University of Luxembourg.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

Buckley has twice been a Fulbright Scholar, at Yale and Duke.{{cite web | url = https://www.fulbright.org.au/alumni/profiles/2011-alumni/ |title = Australian Fulbright Scholars 2011 - Ross Buckley}}

Buckley has served as a consultant to the Asian Development Bank and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.{{cite web |url = https://events.development.asia/author/ross-buckley |title = Asian Development Bank Knowledge Events - Ross Buckley}}{{cite web |url = https://www.miragenews.com/unsw-co-authors-major-financial-inclusion-report/ |title = UNSW co-authors major financial inclusion report| date=4 November 2018 }}

He has consulted to government departments in 12 nations, including, in the US, to the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.{{cite web | url = https://www.arc.gov.au/funding-research/funding-schemes/discovery-program/australian-laureate-fellowships/2020-laureate-profile-professor-ross-buckley | title = 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Ross Buckley|access-date=12 March 2024}}

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