Ian Ramsay is the Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, where he is also Director of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. He is a member of the federal government's Corporatins and Markets Advisory Committee, the Companies Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's External Advisory Panel and the Corporations Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Former positions he has held include head of the federal government inquiry on auditor independence and member of the Takeovers Panel.