Bio

After earning a doctorate (Ph.D) in law at Paris II - Panthéon University (ASSAS), Hubert de Vauplane began his career with Banques Populaires in France as a financial lawyer. He then spent seven years at the stock broker Oddo & Cie, first as a derivatives trader and then as head of the legal department. In 1994, he joined the legal department of the Bank Paribas, where he dealt with capital market operations and mergers and acquisitions. Shortly after the merger with BNP, he was appointed Legal Director for Corporate & Investment banking activities at BNP PARIBAS, in France and abroad (2002). He continued his career with the Crédit Agricole group, first as Global Legal Director of the Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (2007) where he managed the consequences of the financial crisis, then from January 2009 as Group General Counsel ,Legal and Compliance of the Crédit Agricole, where he was in charge of the group’s complex reorganisation operations and Crédit Agricole’s major litigations in France and abroad. Hubert de Vauplane, Banking and FinTech professor at Science Po (Paris) after beeing Professor at Paris II-Panthéon Law University. He is or used to be designated as an expert with World Bank on crypto assets, to the French Securities Commission (AMF) and the European Commission among other international institutions. Until May 2011, he was vice-chairman of the European Financial Lawyers Markets Group (EFLMG) with the European Central Bank and chairman of Association for Banking and Financial Law (AEDBF) from 2009 to 2011. Between 2012 and 2019, he was a member of the Financial Market Law Committee (London). He is member of the Haut Comité Juridique de la Place Fianncière de Paris, chairman of the FinTech section at Paris Europlace. He has written articles and reference books on banking and financial law, one of which received an award from the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (1999). He also writes various legal columns for specialist journals.