Saule Omarova

Saule T. Omarova is the Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law at Cornell University. She is the Director of the Program on the Law and Regulation of Financial Institutions and Markets of Cornell’s Jack Clarke Institute for the Study and Practice of Business Law. Professor Omarova’s scholarly work focuses on the regulation of financial institutions and markets, banking law, and political economy of finance. She is one of the country’s leading academic experts on issues related to regulation of systemic risk and structural trends in financial markets. Previously, she was the George R. Ward Associate Professor of Law at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and taught courses at Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining academia, Professor Omarova practiced law in the Financial Institutions Group of Davis, Polk, & Wardwell, a premier New York law firm, where she specialized in a wide variety of corporate transactions and advisory work in the area of financial regulation. In 2006-2007, she served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Special Advisor for Regulatory Policy to the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance. Professor Omarova holds a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a J.D. degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. She is a member of the New York Bar.