Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez is an Associate Professor of Law and Head of the Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law. His research interests lie at the intersection of law and finance, with particular emphasis on corporate governance, financial regulation and corporate insolvency law, and how legal and institutional reforms may promote entrepreneurship, innovation, access to finance and economic growth. He has taught, studied or conducted research at several institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East, including the University of Oxford, Cambridge University, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Yale Law School, the University of Melbourne, the University of Los Andes, Reichman University and Stanford University. In 2022, he was also a Visiting Scholar at the Becker-Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago. Aurelio is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, as well as member of the World Bank Task Force on Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes and co-chair of the Chicago-SMU-Cambridge Global Initiative on Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency. In 2024, he was named Cross-Border Insolvency Academic of the Year by Global Restructuring Review.