Professor Barry Rider OBE

In addition to teaching law at the University of Cambridge since 1976 Barry has also held numerous public service appointments including Head of the Commonwealth Commercial Crime Unit and Assistant Director (Legal) in the Commonwealth Secretariat. He has also worked for the IMF, as counsel and has been a consultant to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Islamic Financial Services Board, European Union and various UN and regional organisations. He has also practiced law as a barrister, government lawyer (in various jurisdictions) and with the City law firm Beachcroft LLP and the US international law firm Bryan Cave LLP. In recent years his principal clients have been the Kuwait Investment Authority and the People’s Bank of China.

Barry has held and continues to hold a number of visiting appointments at universities around the world and participates in courses on a regular basis in the USA, China, Japan, Italy, South Africa, Argentina, Malaysia and the Philippines. Barry is also the General Editor of The Company Lawyer, Journal of Financial Crime, Journal of Money Laundering Control and Amicus Curiae. He also sits on the editorial and advisory boards of a number of other publications and journals including the Hong Kong Law Review and the Journal of Economic Law.

Barry’s main areas of research are the role of the law in promoting integrity and in particular the identification and management of legal and regulatory risk associated with the inter-play of different legal systems and the civil and criminal law. He has written and contributed to numerous books on such issues as insider dealing, market abuse, money laundering and governance. He is also a respected corporate and financial lawyer having authored several standard texts and founding and serving as the General Editor of the established legal journal, The Company Lawyer. He is also worked in comparative law and more recently Islamic finance law.