Adjunct Professor of Law; Counsel, World Bank
M.A. Oxford University UK; M.A. Cambridge University UK; LL.M. Securities and Financial Regulation Georgetown.

Biography

M.A. Oxford University UK; M.A. Cambridge University UK; LL.M. Securities and Financial Regulation Georgetown. Professor Lawley is Counsel at the World Bank. She is a member of the Finance Division of the Legal Vice Presidency Unit and advises the World Bank’s Pension Plans and Investment Management Division on investment and securities structures, particularly in the private equity and alternative investment space.

From 1986 to 1990, Professor Lawley was an attorney at Linklaters in London, practicing in the pensions and employee benefits area. She then moved to Australia and practiced as attorney and partner at the Australian law firm, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and as special counsel at Maddocks Lawyers, in the pensions division of the firms’ corporate groups. For many years she was on the board of directors of Trinity College of Melbourne University. She moved to Washington DC in 2006.