Hal S. Scott
PRESIDENT
Hal S. Scott is the President and Director of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation.
Professor Scott is also the Emeritus Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School (HLS), where he taught from 1975-2018. His HLS courses were on Capital Markets Regulation, International Finance, the Payment System and Securities Regulation. He is currently an adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he teaches Capital Markets Regulation.
He has a B.A. from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School, 1965), an M.A. from Stanford University in Political Science (1967), and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (1972). In 1974-1975, before joining Harvard, he clerked for Justice Byron White.
He is the Chairman and President of the Program on International Financial Systems (PIFS), founded in 1986, as part of Harvard Law School, which became independent in 2018. Besides doing research, the Program organizes the annual invitation-only U.S.-China, U.S.-Europe, and U.S.-Japan Symposia on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century, and special event roundtables. HLS is the non-financial sponsor or these events. In addition, PIFS partners with Executive Education at HLS in offering executive education for financial regulators around the world.
Professor Scott’s books include the law school textbook International Finance: Transactions, Policy and Regulation (24th ed. Foundation Press 2022); Connectedness and Contagion (M.I.T. Press 2016) and The Global Financial Crisis (Foundation Press 2009). He is the author of numerous journal articles and oped pieces in leading newspapers.
He is also an independent director of MEMX, the Members Exchange. He is a past independent director of Lazard, Ltd. (2006-2016), a past President of the International Academy of Consumer and Commercial Law and a past Governor of the American Stock Exchange (2002-2005).