Prof Niamh Moloney

Niamh Moloney is Professor of Financial Markets Law in the Law School at the London School of Economics and Political Science and specialises in EU financial market regulation. 

Educated at Trinity College Dublin and Harvard Law School, she is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a Member of the Academia Europaea, and has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich. Niamh previously served as Head of the LSE Law School and is currently a member of the LSE Council, the LSE’s governing body. 

Niamh currently serves as an External Member of the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Committee. Previously, she served as an independent, non-executive director of the board of the Central Bank of Ireland and as an alternate member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities. She was Chair of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare, established by the government of Ireland in 2021 to review the state’s taxation and welfare systems, which reported in 2022 (Foundations for the Future).