Rosa María Lastra is the Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. She is the co-director of the Sovereign Debt Forum, vice-chair of the Monetary Committee of the International Law Association, a founding member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, and a research associate of the Financial Markets Group of the London School of Economics. Lastra has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations, and Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In 2021, she acted as special adviser to the House of Lords (Economic Affairs Committee) in their inquiry into the Bank of England’s quantitative easing program. She is a member of the European Parliament’s Monetary Panel and the Banking Union (Resolution) Panel. Prior to coming to London, she was an assistant professor of International Banking at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a consultant in the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund. Lastra holds a PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and an LLM from Harvard Law School, where she was a Fulbright Fellow.
