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Dr. Ann Sofie Cloots is an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law and a member of Darwin College. Her academic trajectory includes a PhD from Cambridge (supervised by Prof. Simon Deakin), an LLM from Columbia Law School as a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar, and a Master's from KULeuven. She previously served as the Slaughter & May Lecturer in Company Law (2019-2021) and practiced corporate/competition law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Skadden Arps in Brussels.
Her research bridges two domains:
- Fintech Innovation: Legal frameworks for cryptoassets, DeFi, blockchain, and smart contracts
- Corporate Theory: Company law, behavioral economics, game-theoretic applications, and legal risk management
Her publications (2010–2021) reveal an evolution from competition law and social policy toward cutting-edge work on decentralized finance. Recent reports for the World Economic Forum (2021) establish her as a leading voice in crypto-regulation.
Awards & Honors:
- Yorke Prize (2020) for doctoral thesis on legal theory of companies
- Cambridge-McKinsey Risk Prize (2018)
- Global Peter Drucker Challenge Finalist (2016)
- Fellowships: Fulbright, Belgian American Foundation, Fernand Lazard
- Grants: AHRC, Cambridge Trust, Cambridge Philosophical Society
