Castellano Giuliano
MR. GIULIANO G. CASTELLANO |
Director - Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
Giuliano G. Castellano is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Faculty of Law. At HKU, Giuliano teaches and conducts research in the areas of financial and commercial law, with a specialisation in financial regulation and regulatory compliance. He holds a Law Degree from Bocconi University, a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences (Management) from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), and a PhD in Law from the Inter-University Centre for Law, Economics and Institutions awarded by the University of Turin (Collegio Carlo Alberto). Before taking his current post at HKU, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and, prior to that, a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of Law.
Beyond academia, Giuliano advises international organisations, governments, central banks, regulators, and financial institutions on prudential regulation, conduct of business, and digital finance. For over a decade, he served as a member of the Italian delegation at the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to draft international legal standards promoting access to credit, such as the UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions. Since 2020, he is an international expert for the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) where he contributed to the elaboration of the UNIDROIT Factoring Model Law (2023). Furthermore, since 2017, he has been working with the World Bank Group and other multilateral development agencies on regulatory and legal reforms in over 20 jurisdictions across the globe to support a sustainable access to credit and promote financial stability. At the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Macau, Giuliano served, first, as a Senior Advisor (2021-2022) and, then, as a Member of the Executive Committee (2022-present).