Professor Niamh Moloney

Niamh Moloney specializes in EU financial markets regulation. Educated at Trinity College Dublin and Harvard Law School, she is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea, and has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich. Niamh’s books include EU Securities and Financial Markets Regulation (4^th edition, 2023), The Age of ESMA. Governing EU Financial Markets (2018), and Brexit and Financial Services. Law and Policy (2018, with Alexander, Barnard, Ferran, and Lang). Niamh is an editorial board member of several journals, including the European Law Review, a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation, and a Series Editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation. She is a member of the LSE Council, the LSE’s governing body.

Niamh currently serves as an External Member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee. Previously, Niamh served as an independent, non-executive director of the board of the Central Bank of Ireland. She was Chair of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare, established by the government of Ireland in 2021 to review the state’s taxation and welfare systems, which reported in 2022 (Foundations for the Future). Niamh has also served as an alternate member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities and as a member of the Stakeholder Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority, and was Special Adviser to the 2014-2015 inquiry by the UK Parliament House of Lords EU Select Committee into the EU’s regulatory response to the financial crisis.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk.

Niamh's main research interest is to explore the EU's regulation of financial markets from institutional, substantive, and contextual perspectives. She is particularly interested in the consumer markets and in ESMA’s role in EU financial markets.

LL4K8 Law of Corporate Finance: Securities Regulation

LL4K9 European Capital Markets Law

Niamh currently serves as an External Member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee. Previously, Niamh served as an independent, non-executive director of the board of the Central Bank of Ireland. She was Chair of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare, established by the government of Ireland in 2021 to review the state’s taxation and welfare systems, which reported in 2022 (Foundations for the Future). Niamh has also served as an alternate member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities.

Niamh’s previous public service includes member and Chair, Consumer Advisory Group, Central Bank of Ireland and member, inaugural and second Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). She was Special Adviser to the 2014-2015 inquiry by the UK Parliament House of Lords EU Select Committee into the EU’s regulatory response to the financial crisis. Niamh also served as a member of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s advisory Financial Services Consumer Panel and has acted as an expert witness for UK Parliament Select Committee and European Parliament inquiries on financial market regulation.