Research Fellow
Robert E. Bishop is the Chief Financial Officer of the International Institute of Law and Finance, which he co-founded, as well as a Fellow at the UC Berkeley School of Law Center for Law and Business. His academic research focuses on corporate governance, securities, and markets more broadly.
Bishop brings a distinguished record of public service. Most recently, he was the senior advisor on financial markets at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he played an integral role on economic relief efforts. Before his doctoral studies, he was counsel to a Commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to graduate school, he served in the Middle East with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Bishop holds an A.B. from the University of Chicago, J.D. and M.B.A. from Columbia University, and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University. He clerked on the Delaware Court of Chancery.