Charles K. Whitehead is the Myron C. Taylor Alumni Professor of Business Law at Cornell Law School and is a Professor and founding Director of the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship program at Cornell Tech. Professor Whitehead is also a co-founder of the Institute of Law, Technology and Innovation in Ukraine. Before entering academia, Professor Whitehead represented clients in transactions around the world and held senior legal and business positions in the financial services industry in New York and Tokyo, including as a Managing Director of Nomura Securities International, Salomon Brothers, and Citigroup. As an academic, Professor Whitehead was a Research Fellow at Columbia Law School (where he continues as a Visiting Scholar in Residence) before joining the Boston University School of Law in 2006 and Cornell Law School in 2009. Professor Whitehead was the first foreign expert visiting professor at Peking University Law School and a Research Fellow in the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt. He is the only American to receive an honorary doctor’s degree from Yaroslav Mudriy National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Professor Whitehead was a law clerk to the Hon. Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland, U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit), and is a graduate of Columbia Law School (James Kent Scholar; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) and Cornell University (B.A., magna cum laude, Government; Sherman-Bennett Award).