LLB and Postgraduate Degree (U. Externado de Colombia), LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law (Queen Mary, University of London) and Ph.D. in Law (U. of Warwick) (Scholar of the Central Bank of Colombia). LigiaCatherine specialises in the study of financial derivatives market and regulatory changesin the UK and the US. She conducted her doctoral research at University ofWarwick under the supervision of Professor Dr. Dalvinder Singh.Her research is focused on three deficiencies identified by the authorities andOTC derivative market participants.She has been granted with several scholarships from Externado de Colombia University,Fundación para el Futuro de Colombia COLFUTURO and Ecopetrol S.A. Most recently, the central bank ofColombia sponsored her Ph.D. at the University of Warwick.She is consultant on Central Clearing Services, Exchange and OTC markets, Legal Structure, Conflicts of Laws, CCP-CMs agreements in Emerging Markets (Nigeria). Currently, she provides institutional consulting services on Post-Brexit regulatory reforms -(Bank of England). Registered independent expert at the Legal Department of the IMF. Member of the Advisory Team of the Central Bank of United Arab Emirates for the adoption of Basel III.Additionally, Ligia Catherine has been lecturer of Commercial Law, Financial Law and Investment Arbitration within different undergraduate and postgraduate programmes atExternado de Colombia University. Currently, she is assistant lecturer of the Financial Services Regulation Seminar at School of Law- University of Warwick. She has been conference presenter in Oxford, Cornell and Harvard Universities. Moreover, she is Associate Professor at Externado de Colombia University.Several of her research articles have been published in Canadian (BFLR), British (Warwick Law School Working Paper Series and Financial Regulation International) and Colombian Law Journals (E-mercatori@ and Revista Derecho Privado- U.Externado).She published a chapter on "Multiple Strategies of Financial Regulation in the Colombian OTC Derivatives Market" book" Law and Policy in Latin America: Transforming Courts, Institutions and Rights" (Palgrave, 2017). Most recently, she's publishing her book "Regulation and Supervision of the OTC Derivatives Market" (Routledge, 2018).Read more about this authorRead less about this author