Hal S. Scott

CHAIRMAN AND PRESIDENT

Hal S. Scott 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. In addition to 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. Harvard Law School is the non-financial sponsor of these events. PIFS also collaborates with Harvard Law School Executive Education on training programs for financial regulators around the world.

Hal S. Scott is the Emeritus Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School (HLS), where he taught from 1975-2018. In 1974-1975, before joining HLS, he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Justice Byron White. Professor Scott’s 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 also offers an on-line course on International Finance Regulation through Harvard Law School.

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.

Professor Scott is also the President and Director of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, a bi-partisan non-profit organization organized in 2006, dedicated to enhancing the competitiveness of U.S. capital markets and ensuring the stability of the U.S. financial system via research and advocacy.

He is also an independent director of MEMX, the Members Exchange and 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).

He has an B.A. from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School 1965), an M.A. from Stanford in Political Science (1967) and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (1972).