Ross P. Buckley

Ross P. Buckley is a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow. He has also twice been a Fulbright Scholar, at Yale University and Duke University. Buckley’s academic work focuses on financial technology (FinTech), regulatory technology (RegTech), digital financial services and the future of money. He is also one of the world’s most read legal scholars on the Social Science Research Network, where his scholarship has accumulated over 270,000 downloads. Bibliometric analysis identifies Buckley as among the most influential authors in global financial technology research, with the highest co-citation link strength in the field.

Buckley holds prominent advisory roles. In July 2023, he was appointed to the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia, which governs the nation’s payments policy. Buckley has chaired the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC’s) Digital Finance Advisory Panel since 2017 and serves on several other ASIC advisory committees – including its Consultative Panel (since 2023), Simplification Consultative Group (since 2025) and Public and Private Markets Advisory Group (since 2025).

Early life and education Buckley was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He earned a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) from the University of Queensland. He went on to work as a solicitor for Deacons in Hong Kong and then an associate with the Wall Street law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.

Transitioning to academia, Buckley joined the law faculty of Bond University, where he became a professor and served as Director of the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade & Finance. and then broadened to the emerging field of FinTech and its regulatory challenges. the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, among many others. In recent years, he co-authored a comprehensive book, FinTech: Finance, Technology and Regulation, with Cambridge University Press.

Buckley frequently works with long-term co-authors Douglas W. Arner (of the University of Hong Kong) and Dirk A. Zetzsche (of the University of Luxembourg). From 2015 to 2025, they worked directly with regulatory authorities in 62 nations, helping to shape policies on digital finance and financial inclusion around the world. They also served as consultants to 40 organisations and agencies, which included the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, Arab Monetary Fund, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Asian Development Bank, Bank for International Settlements, European Union, Financial Stability Board, G20, International Monetary Fund, International Organization of Securities Commissions, Islamic Development Bank, United Nations and the World Bank.