Katja Langenbucher

Katja Langenbucher is a Professor of Civil Law, Commercial Law, and Banking Law at Goethe University Frankfurt, and serves as the Coordinator of the LawLab – Fintech & AI as a Bridge Professor at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE since November 2021. She holds additional affiliations as an affiliated professor at SciencesPo, Paris, and a long-term guest professor at Fordham Law School, New York City. Her research focuses on FinTech, artificial intelligence, and corporate governance of banks, with extensive publications in corporate, banking, and securities law.

Dr. Langenbucher actively contributes to policy and regulatory frameworks, serving on the supervisory board of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), the German Federal Ministry of Finance's working group on capital markets law, and the Center for AI and Digital Policy-Global Academic Network. She previously participated in the EU Commission's High Level Forum on the Capital Market Union.

Her academic leadership extends to coordinating interdisciplinary initiatives like the LawLab – Fintech & AI, bridging legal, financial, and technological domains. She also contributes to doctoral programs in Law, Finance, and Economics through the Leibniz Institute SAFE.