About the Author

Kathryn Judge regularly presents her work to audiences in the United States and abroad, allowing her to engage with an array of policymakers, academics and industry leaders. Her academic work has received accolates from academic peers and industry. Her book Direct was on the longlist for the Financial Times book of the year and received the 2023 Axiom Gold Medal for Business Theory. 

Judge is the Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law at Columbia University. Her research focuses on banking financial crises, central banking and regulatory design. She currently serves as the Chair of the Research Committee of the European Corporate Governance Institute and as Co-Chair of the Better Markets Academic Advisory Board. She has served as Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at Columbia Law School, as an editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation, as a member of the Financial Stability Task Force co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution and Chicago Booth School of Business and as a member of the Financial Research Advisory Committee to the Office of Financial Regulation. Judge separately serves as a director of Pershing Square SPARC Holdings Ltd., Bread for the World and Bread for World Institute, and she chairs committees for each organization. 

Prior to joining Columbia, Judge clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court. She also worked as a corporate associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School (J.D. with Distinction, 2004), where she earned the Urban A. Sontheimer Honor (second in graduating class) and Wesleyan University (B.A. with High Honors, 1999). 

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