PROF. MICHELE SIRI Jean Monnet Chair on European Union Financial and Insurance Markets Regulation Michele Siri is a professor of business law at the University of Genoa (Italy) and holds a Jean Monnet Chair on European Union Financial and Insurance Markets Regulation, awarded by European Commission in 2017 for teaching and research activities devoted to the EU regulation of the financial and insurance sector. He is also a visiting professor of financial institutions and markets law at the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan. He has published widely in the fields of insurance and financial services law, and he has served as an adviser to and participated in expert working groups initiated by public institutions, such as the Italian Government and the Italian Supervisory Authorities, on financial and insurance markets regulation with a special focus on European Union policy initiatives. Michele Siri was appointed in 2017 by ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, as a permanent member of the Consultative Working Group for Investor Protection and Intermediaries Standing Committee (IPISC). He is also an academic member of ECGI, the European Corporate Governance Institute in Brussels and fellow of the Genoa Centre for Law and Finance. In the private sector, Michele has fulfilled independent director roles for boards both of financial institutions and listed companies. He also acted as supervisor in the administrative procedures for the recovery and resolution in the insurance sector. His academic publications deal with insurance, financial markets, corporate law topics. The main research interests concern the corporate governance of financial institutions, investor protection, and the regulation of financial and insurance intermediaries. He is a guest contributor to the Oxford Business Law Blog.