Doug Sarro

Doug's dissertation looks at how securities regulators respond to new financial innovations, and how politicians can use law to steer these responses—for better and for worse. His recent work appears in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, UBC Law Review, Queen's Law Journal, Canadian Business Law Journal, and Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law. Doug has also commented on business law issues for the Globe and Mail, Canadian Press, and other media outlets.

Before pursuing an academic career, Doug clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, practiced corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, and was a senior advisor at the Ontario Securities Commission. He remains engaged in the securities industry as a Vice Chair of the Canadian Advocacy Council of CFA Societies Canada.

Doug holds a J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School, where he graduated as gold medallist. He is a member of the bars of Ontario and New York and a CFA charterholder.