Marco Dell'Erba

Marco Dell’Erba joined the Wilson Center as Global Fellow in the Science & Technology Innovation Program, to study the financial implications of the cryptoeconomy, cryptofinance and the emergence of the metaverse. 

Marco Dell'Erba is Assistant Professor of Corporate & Financial Law at the University of Zurich, where he is also a member of the Blockchain Center and the Digital Society Initiative. He is a Fellow at the Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance at New York University School of Law, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Research Network for Sustainable Finance, a research initiative involving leading academic institutions.

He previously held research positions at New York University, where he was Global Fellow affiliated with NYU’s Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance and the Center for Financial Institutions; at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Financial Regulation Laboratory of Excellence); the National University of Singapore; and at the London School of Economics as a Research Assistant in the Department of law during his PhD. He practiced law in the departments of Banking & Finance and Litigation & Dispute Resolutions at Clifford Chance LLP (Rome) and as an independent consultant (Paris).

Marco Dell’Erba holds a JD summa cum laude from the University of Rome La Sapienza and is a fellow of the Lamaro Pozzani University College of Excellence (Rome) where he was awarded a five-year full merit-based scholarship. He obtained his LL.M in Corporation Law at the New York University School of Law, where he was Global Hauser Scholar and served as Graduate Editor in the NYU Journal of Law & Business. He holds a PhD in private law and financial regulation from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a PhD in corporate and securities law from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He earned his Professorial Habilitation in Corporate & Financial Law at the University of Zurich.

Marco Dell’Erba has published in American and European journals, and his research was featured on the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, the Oxford Business Law Blog, and the Machine Lawyering of the Chinese University of Hong-Kong.

His research interests include Financial Law & Banking Law, Corporate Law, Law & Technology.