Eric J. Pan is an Associate Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. His research focuses on financial regulation, corporate law, securities law and international law. Since January 2011, he has been serving as an Academic Fellow in the Office of International Affairs of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC where he has been advising the Commission and its senior staff on the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and coordination and cooperation efforts with non-U.S. regulators. He will be a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University in the spring semester of 2012.

Before joining the SEC, Prof. Pan was an Associate Fellow in the International Economics and International Law Programmes of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London and directed the Chatham House City Series. He also has served as an advisor to the Canadian Ministry of Finance on reform of the Canadian securities regulatory system.

Prof. Pan previously practiced corporate, securities and international law in the Washington, DC office of the international law firm Covington & Burling. Before joining Covington, Prof. Pan was a Jean Monnet Lecturer in Law at Warwick University, England, where he served as director of Warwick’s Programme in Law and Business, and a visiting fellow in international law at Cambridge University, England.

Prof. Pan is a member of The American Law Institute, an editorial board member of the Journal of Regulation in Paris and an advisory board member of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development in Hong Kong. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, and A.B. from Harvard College.