Bankruptcy law

 International financial regulation, esp. Basel II capital framework

 Corporate law and corporate governance

 Financial risk management

 Quantitative methods and empirical analysis bridging law and finance

Education

 Stanford Law School, JSD Candidate, 2004-5, 2007-present

 Stanford Law School, JSM, 2003

 National University of Singapore, LLB, 2001

 Passed FRM (Financial Risk Manager) Designation Exam, 2007

 Passed CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Level I Designation Exam, 2004

Resume

 Sarah used to work as a credit risk research manager in Moody’s KMV, London where she managed the research initiative on modeling the loss severity of bonds and syndicated loans. She has also advised financial institutions as a quantitative analyst in Moody’s KMV, New York on the development and validation of internal rating models used for risk management as well as Basel II compliance.

 Prior to this, Sarah has worked as a corporate finance attorney in White & Case LLP, San Francisco and Baker & McKenzie, Singapore on credit transactions and bankruptcy issues. She has worked as an equity research analyst with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and Shanghai, covering companies in the Asian energy sector and helping to roll out an internally-developed modeling platform. In addition, she served as a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and published in the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, the Electricity Journal, U.S. Credit, FinanceAsia, etc.

Last updated on 29 June 2008.