Rosa Lastra is a Professor in International Financial and Monetary Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to joining CCLS she was Assistant Professor and Director of the International Finance and Business Program at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York. Rosa Lastra is a member of MOCOMILA, a founding member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, a senior research associate of the Financial Markets Group of the London School of Economics and Political Science and an affiliated scholar of the Centre for the Study of Central Banks at New York University School of Law. She has consulted for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and others.