Jesper Lau Hansen

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Education:

2001: Doctor Juris (Dr. Jur.), University of Copenhagen
1993: Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Cambridge
1992: Advokat (lawyer), admitted to the bar of the Court of Appeal
1989: Candidatus Juris (Cand. Jur.), University of Copenhagen

Professional career:

2003-: Professor of Financial Markets Law (full tenure)
2001-03: Associate Professor
1999-2001: Assistant Professor
1995-99: Research fellow, University of Copenhagen
1989-1995: Kromann & Münter, law firm, Copenhagen

Memberships:

• The Nordic Network for Company Law
• The Nordic Corporate Governance Network
• The Danish Corporate Governance Association
• The Danish Association for Company Law
• The Danish Association for Arbitration and LCIA
• European Forum on Securities Regulation
• International Corporate Governance Society
• Kredsen Mars og Mercur
• The Law Society
• FOCOFIMA

Appointments and positions:

• Member of the Rector's Selection Committee, Crown Princess Mary's Scholarship (2004-)
• Member, Commission's Informal Company Law Expert Group (ICLEG 2014-19), reappointed (2020-).
• Member, Academic Committee, European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI), (2017-)
• Member, Academic Council, Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL), University of Stockholm (2021-).
• Member of the board of the Danish Association for Company Law (2012-)
• Member, Executive Committee of the Danish Committee of the Int. Academy of Comparative Law
• Director or chairman of the board in several mutual funds (UCITS and AIF) connected to the financial group Nykredit.
• Member of the board of NASDAQ OMX Nordic Foundations, Sweden (2011-)
• Member and presently Vice-Chairman, CEPOS (a think-tank) (2003-)
• Member of the editing committee, Juridisk Formularbog (DJØF Publishers), a survey of Danish laws (2004-)
• Editorial Committee, Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret (Nordic J. of Corporate Law) (2009-)
• Editorial Committee, FinansInvest (2014-)
• Managing editor, European Company and Financial Law Review (2019-)
• Arbitration in various cases, appointed by the Danish Institute of Arbitration

 Former appointments:

• Chairman, Rector's Election Committee, U. of Copenhagen (2011-22)
• Member from the Faculty of Law of Rector's Researchers Panel, an advisory group serving Rector at the UCPH (2020-2023)
• Academic member of ESMA's Stakeholder Group (2011-13). Reappointed and elected chair (2013-16).
• Member of the Danish FSA committee on the education of directors in financial undertakings (independt expert) (2015-16).
• Member of the public Committee on regulation of SIFIs (independent expert), 2012-13.
• Member of the public Committee to Modernise Danish Company Law (independent expert), 2006-08
• Member of the public Committee on the ban on insider dealing (independent expert), 2005-10
• Member of the Reflection Group on the future of EU company law, expert committee appointed by the European Commission (2010-11)
• Member and later chairman of the board, Nordisk Kollegium (a college), 2002-2010.
• Editorial board, Journal of Corporate Law Studies (2005-2014).
• The Danish Management Society, VL 12 (2012-22).
• Member, VL group 12 (2012-2022), Chair (2018).
• Member, VL group 12 (2012-2022), Chair (2018).

Knowledge of languages

• Danish and English.
• Understands Norwegian and Swedish.