Dr Pedro Schilling de Carvalho

Pedro is an Assistant Professor in Financial and Environmental Law at the UCL Faculty of Laws. He pursued a PhD in Law and Finance at the University of Cambridge, where he received a Cambridge International Scholarship, as well as an LLM in Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge, supported by a Chevening Scholarship, and a LLB from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Pedro has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, and is a member of the European Banking Institute. Pedro has experience working on operations and advisory projects at the Legal Vice Presidency of The World Bank Group in topics related to Company & Corporate Law, Financial Regulation, Sustainable Finance, Environmental and Social Framework, and Legal & Judicial Reform. He contributed to flagship products such as the B-READY Report (successor to the Doing Business series) and Country Climate and Development Reports, and is a certified peer-reviewer by the Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Global Practice. Prior to joining UCL, Pedro has taught and worked at the University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, and University of Edinburgh. Pedro also has experience as both a transactional and dispute resolution lawyer. He worked with Professor Albert Jan van den Berg and has been involved both as counsel, consultant, and secretary to Arbitral Tribunals under the ICC, AAA, and CAM-CCBC Rules. Pedro was also Chief of Staff at the Commercial Law Chamber of the São Paulo Supreme Court, and an associate working in arbitration at a GAR 100 Firm and in M&A at a IFLR 1000 Firm.