Saule Omarova

Saule Omarova specializes in the regulation of financial institutions, banking law, international finance, and corporate finance. Before joining Cornell Law School in 2014, she was the George R. Ward Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Prior to joining academia, Professor Omarova practiced law in the Financial Institutions Group of Davis Polk & Wardwell, a premier New York law firm, where she specialized in a wide variety of corporate transactions and advisory work in the area of financial regulation. In 2006-2007, Professor Omarova served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Special Advisor for Regulatory Policy to the Undersecretary for Domestic Finance.