Chiara Zilioli Editor

Sir William Blair studied law at Oxford University and practised at the English bar specialising in banking and finance. He became a High Court judge in 2008 and Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court in 2017-18. Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, he is Chair of the Enforcement Decision Making Committee of the Bank of England, an international arbitrator at 3VB Chambers where he helped establish the pro bono International Advisory and Dispute Resolution Unit, and a judge of the Qatar International Court. Chiara Zilioli holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute. She is the General Counsel of the European Central Bank. She has been appointed Professor at the Law Faculty of the J-W Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, where she lectures regularly. She is also professor at the Law department of the LUISS University, Rome, and at the Collegio Europeo di Parma, Italy. In 2012 she has given a course at the Academy of European Law of the European University Institute. Chiara Zilioli is a member of the Italian Bar, is married and has four children. Christos Gortsos is Professor of Public Economic Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University (NKUA) of Athens. He studied, at undergraduate and graduate level, law, economics, finance, as well as international history and politics at the NKUA and the Universities of Zurich, Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School) and Geneva (Graduate Institute of International Studies), where he also obtained his PhD degree. Currently, he is, inter alia, Vice-President of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities, President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute (EBI), and Member of the European Parliament's Expert Group on banking resolution.