Michel Tison

Professor Michel Tison

Michel Tison is professor at the Financial Law Institute, Ghent University (Belgium), where he graduated in law (1990) and obtained a PhD degree in law with a thesis on the European internal market for banking and financial services (1997).

At Ghent University, he teaches courses in domestic and European banking and securities law, corporations and general commercial law. He has published on various issues of domestic, comparative and European banking and financial law, company law and insolvency law.

He is also visiting professor at the University of Luxembourg, where he teaches in the graduate program on European banking law.

He was a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh in winter 2001, at the University of Bonn in 2004, and at Bond University (Australia) in 2008, and is an Honorary Research Fellow from Monash University (Australia).

In 2005, he was appointed assessor at the legislative section of the Council of State, which advises Parliament and government on draft bills and regulations, for a 5-year term.

He has been member of the board of the Belgian section of the European Society for Banking and Financial Law since 1997, and as its president from 2004 to 2007.