Irit Ronen-Mevorach

Prof. Irit Ronen-Mevorach is a professor of international commercial law and the founder and co-director of University of Nottingham Commercial Law Centre in Nottingham, U.K. She teaches and researches issues in corporate law, enterprise groups, insolvency, cross-border insolvency and bank resolution. Between 1998 and 2003, Prof. Ronen-Mevorach practiced law at Lipa Meir & Co. in Tel-Aviv,Israel, where she led financing and secured transactions, commercial litigation, and advice in corporate restructuring, liquidations and administrations. Since 2006, she has been acting as an expert adviser tothe U.K. government’s delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UN-CITRAL), and from 2013-16 she represented the World Bank at the Commission in deliberations in theareas of insolvency and cross-border insolvency. In 2013, Prof. Ronen-Mevorach was appointed seniorcounsel to the World Bank and headed the Bank’s Global Initiative on Insolvency and Creditor/DebtorRegimes (2013-15). In that capacity, she advised governments of some 10 countries in Africa, Asia, Eu-rope and the Caribbean on the reform of business and personal insolvency and creditor/debtor systems.She also headed the Bank’s Global Task Force on Insolvency and Creditor Rights. She has retained a consultancy with the World Bank and continues to provide training and advice in projects involving emerging markets. Prof. Ronen-Moevorach’s book Insolvency within Multinational Enterprise Groups(Oxford University Press 2009) won the Edwin-Coe/INSOL Europe Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2010, and she has been awarded British Academy grants for her empirical and comparative research in the area of cross-border insolvency; her academic and policy work has influenced law reformin Europe and globally. Prof. Ronen-Mevorach was elected to the International Insolvency Institute(III) membership in 2012 and is currently co-chair of its academic wing. She was elected to the American College of Bankruptcy in 2019 and sits on the editorial board of the Global Restructuring Review(GRR), the Spanish Journal of Insolvency and Restructuring and the International Advisory Council of the Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative (SGRI). In 2020, Prof. Ronen-Mevorach was appointed toUK Office for Science Covid-19 Recovery Trade and Aid Working Group, which synthesized evidence against research questions that departments should consider in the medium-to-long-term recovery from the COVID-19 emergency. She also was named in 2020 to the inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading Glob-al Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyers, and was appointed to the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Commit-tee on Private International Law, Ministry of Justice. Prof. Ronen-Mevorach holds received her LL.B.magna cum laude in 1997 and her LL.M. in commercial law in 2001 from from Tel-Aviv University, and her Ph.D. from UCL in London.