Saule omarova professor of law biography

Biography

Saule Omarova is the Earle Hepburn Professor of Law at The University of Pennsylvania.

She was previously Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law at Cornell University School of Law.

Professor Omarova specializes in the regulation of financial institutions, banking law, international finance, and corporate finance.

In 2021, she was nominated to serve as Comptroller of The Currency by President Biden.

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, she served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Special Advisor for Regulatory Policy to the Under Secretary for Domestic Fin