Andrew Bellah is a second-year JD student at Georgetown Law and a graduate of Yale University, where he studied political science. Andrew is interested in debt, finance and capital markets, with a focus on how innovations in these areas can be used to facilitate international development and combat global challenges like conflict displacement, healthcare inequality and climate change. 

He is also interested in financial and legal history, with an emphasis on international law and trade in Europe during the Medieval Era and early Renaissance. His favorite recent read is Raymond de Roover’s “Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank: 1397 – 1494,” and believes that through studying, analyzing and explaining problems in the past, contemporary problem-solvers can have a better perspective about the present. 

Andrew is from Shreveport, Louisiana, and in his free time enjoys reading literature and history, listening to music, and collecting and digitally archiving vinyl records and cassette tapes from lesser-known artists in the American South.