Dr. Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez

Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez is an Associate Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law. His research interests lie at the intersection of law and finance, with particular emphasis on corporate governance, financial regulation and corporate insolvency law, and how legal and institutional reforms may promote entrepreneurship, innovation, access to finance and economic growth. 

He has taught, studied or conducted research at several institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, including the University of Oxford, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Yale Law School, the University of Melbourne, the University of Los Andes, Reichman University and Stanford University. In 2022, he was also a Visiting Scholar at the Becker-Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago. 

Aurelio is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, as well as a member of the American Law and Economics Association, the OECD Latin America Roundtable on Corporate Governance and the World Bank Task Force on Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes. He is also the head of the SMU Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative, co-chair of the Chicago-SMU-Cambridge Global Initiative on Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency and founding director of the Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance. Aurelio has received several scholarships and awards, including the Talentia Fellowship to pursue his studies in law and finance at the University of Oxford and the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award at Singapore Management University. In 2016, he was named Rising Star of Corporate Governance by the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School. In 2021, he was honored with the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 40 under 40 award. In 2024, he was named Cross-Border Insolvency Academic of the Year by Global Restructuring Review.  

His academic work has been cited by courts and regulators from several jurisdictions and has been published in leading academic journals such as the European Business Organization Law Review, Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Australian Journal of Corporate Law, International Insolvency Review, Oxford Journal of Financial Regulation, Journal of Portfolio Management, University of Chicago Business Law Review and Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. He has been invited to present his research before several regulators, government agencies and international organizations including the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Australian Department of the Treasury, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.