Megan Bowman

    Professor Megan Bowman is a full Professor of Law and founding Director of the King’s Centre for Climate Law & Governance. She also leads the King’s/United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) partnership on Legal Readiness for Climate Finance and consults to governments and NGOs on implementing the Paris Agreement.

    Professor Bowman’s expertise focuses on empirical and transnational analyses of financial regulation and company law in the context of climate change and planetary sustainability. Her award-winning research has been cited in scientific reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2022), the UN High-Level Climate Champions’ Pivot Point regulatory report (2022) and featured in the eco-arts digital display The Quiet Enchanting on The Strand in London (2023). Her first book Banking on Climate Change: How Finance Actors and Transnational Regulatory Regimes are Responding (Kluwer 2015) has been lauded as ground-breaking and was launched by then Hon. Mr. Justice William Blair of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. She has been Principal Investigator on several high impact research grants including a prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship on climate-related financial and corporate regulation in Europe and the UK (2020-2022); and her current work explores justice imperatives in the context of systems change and corporate accountability as illustrated by a King’s Sustainability Seed Grant on youth-led climate litigation (2023-2024).

    Professor Bowman is also a Visiting Professor in EU Company Law at Université de Paris-Dauphine, and guest lecturer in climate law and sustainable finance topics at the University of Cambridge. She has held previous academic positions at McGill University, UNSW Australia, Monash University, and Victoria Law School where she was awarded the highest accolade of the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award (2008). Most recently Professor Bowman was awarded the 2023 Supervisory Excellence Award for PhD supervision in The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

    Professor Bowman is a qualified barrister and solicitor of the High Court of Australia and Supreme Court of Victoria who began her career as a top-tier legal practitioner in corporate/commercial law and environmental/planning law. She holds a double bachelor’s degree in Arts/Law (Hons, Monash), an LLM in Comparative Law (McGill) and a PhD in regulatory theory (The Australian National University).

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      King’s Centre for Climate Law & Governance
    Speaker Details
    • Profession
      Professor/Director
    • Company
      King’s Centre for Climate Law & Governance