April 18, 2019 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Cally Jordan as a Research Fellow.
“Cally’s legal and financial-sector expertise is a valuable resource to the C.D. Howe Institute,” said Robson. “Her international experience puts her in the front rank in answering questions about how Canadian practices compare with peers and competitors abroad.”
Cally Jordan has both civil and common law degrees from McGill University and a DEA en droit des affaires from the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).She also holds an MA from the University of Toronto.
Admitted to practice in Ontario, Quebec, New York, California and Hong Kong, she spent several years with the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb where she had an international finance and banking practice. Since then, in various capacities, she has advised governments around the world on financial, corporate and commercial law reforms working in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Tunisia, China, Chile, Korea, Slovakia, Armenia, Macedonia, Lithuania, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Bahrain, Mauritius, Cambodia and Brunei. Based in Washington, DC, Cally spent several years on the World Bank staff engaged in technical assistance and project finance. She also spent over two years, on a full-time basis, as an advisor to the Financial Services Bureau of the Hong Kong government, and went on to advise the UK government on the Companies Act 2006.
Currently a full-time faculty member at the Melbourne Law School (Australia), she recently held the Estey Visiting Chair in Business Law at the University of Saskatchewan. She has taught at law schools and participated in international programmes in Canada, the United States, the UK and Europe, for example, at McGill, Osgoode Hall, Duke, Georgetown, the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS, London), the International University College (Torino), the Max Planck Institute (Hamburg), the London School of Economics, the British Institute for International and Comparative Law, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and most recently, Harris Manchester College, Oxford. In August 2019, she will be returning to London UK to teach again at CTLS for the fall semester.
A member of both the American and European Law Institutes, she also serves on the Local Capital Markets Advisory Council of the EBRD, London, is a member of the Experts Panel, P.R.I.M.E Finance (The Hague) and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
The second edition of her book, International Capital Markets: Law and Institutions, Oxford University Press, will appear in 2020.
For more information please contact: C.D. Howe Institute at 416-865-1904; email: media@cdhowe.org.