Professor Douglas W. Arner is awarded ‘Master Fintech Professional’ Certification from Colorado, USA based Global Academy of Finance and Management(GAFM)

Professor Douglas W. Arner, BA (Drury), JD (SMU), LLM, PhD (London) is the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law at the University of Hong Kong, a Senior Fellow of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and a Non-Executive Director of Aptorum Group (NASDAQ: APM).

At HKU, he co-founded and is the Faculty Director of the LLM Compliance and Regulation, LLM Corporate and Financial Law, LITE (Law, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship), and EAIEL (East Asian International Economic Law and Policy) Programmes. He led the development of the world’s largest massive open online course (MOOC): Introduction to FinTech, launched on edX in May 2018, now with approximately 40,000 learners spanning every country in the world, as part of the first online Professional Certificate in FinTech.

Professor Douglas specialises in economic and financial law, regulation and development. He is author, co-author or editor of fifteen books, including Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation, Financial Markets in Hong Kong: Law and Practice, Finance in Asia: Institutions, Regulation and Policy, From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial Crisis and Regulatory Failure and Financial Stability, Economic Growth and the Role of Law, and the author or co-author of more than 150 articles, chapters and reports on related subjects.

He was an inaugural member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council, on which he served from 2013-2019. He is co-founder and a member of the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Structured Finance Association, and a member of the Advisory Boards of SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator, the International RegTech Association and the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship.

From 2012-2018, he served as Project Coordinator of a major five-year project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme on “Enhancing Hong Kong’s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre.”
 

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