Chris Brummer is currently working in Agnes N. Williams Senior Scientist of Macroeconomic Law at Georgetown University and is also a well determined Faculty Director of the Institute of Transnational Law. Brummer was one of the associate law professors at Vanderbilt Law School before he paved his way to the Georgetown campus with tenure in 2009. He has also served as a visiting professor at numerous prestigious institutions, including Switzerland, Hamburg, and the Business School.
Doctor Brummer lately completed a three-year term on FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council, a body charged by Congress with regulating the equities sector, where his work was lauded as making a substantial contribution to improving investor safety.
Chris Brummer graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and possesses a Doctorate in Germanic Study at the University of Illinois. Prior towards being a professor, he worked as a lawyer at Cravath, Raw natural & Moore LLP’s New York and Europe offices. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the Milken Center and a recipient of the Atlantic Council’s C. Boyden Gray Foundation for Global Financial Development and economic growth, where he created the think tank’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative.
Brummer has given several lectures on banking and global governance, as well as formal and informal international law, market microstructure, and international commerce. He has written many publications, the most recent of which being Financial Law inside a Nutshell (2019). His latest study looks at how Chinese currency internationalization is creating new systemic vulnerabilities for the world banking markets.