Ronald H. Filler is an esteemed former Professor of Law and a global leader in the financial services industry. During his 45+ year career in the global futures and securities industries, he has spoken at over 300 business and law programs.
As a professor at four U.S. law schools, he taught Securities Regulation, Derivatives Regulation, and the Regulation of Broker-Dealers and Futures Commission Merchants, among other subjects. In January 2020, Mr. Filler became Professor Emeritus at New York Law School (“NYLS”). In March 2021, he was named Chair of the newly named Ronald H. Filler Institute on Financial Services Law at NYLS. Since then, Mr. Filler has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the College of Law at the University of Illinois the Fall 2023 and Fall 2024 semesters, and a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Mr. Filler is a current member of the Board of Directors of the National Futures Association (“NFA”) where he serves as a Public Director through early 2028. His continued service to NFA includes past membership on the Executive Committee. In March 2022, he was inducted into the Futures Industry Association (FIA) Hall of Fame for serving on the Executive Committee of FIA Law & Compliance Division for 40+ years. Ron has also previously served as the Past Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Global Markets Advisory Committee as a Public Director and Member of the Regulatory Oversight Committee of NYSE Life US, before its purchase by the International Commodity Exchange (“ICE”).
In the private sector, Mr. Filler also currently serves on the Board of Directors of ABAXX Clearing, a clearinghouse located in Singapore. He is the Chair of its Regulatory Oversight Conflicts Committee, a former Public Director of the Board of Directors, and the Chair of the Nominating Committee. Previously, Ron served on the Regulatory Oversight Committee of Swap-Ex, a swap execution facility owned by State Street, and he served as a Senior Consultant to Allen & Overy, a major international law firm. Mr. Filler is currently a member of, or has served on, numerous additional industry boards and advisory committees, as well as been a member of several U.S. futures exchanges during his career.
Mr. Filler joined the faculty of NYLS in 2008. He brought with him fifteen years of experience as the Managing Director in the Capital Markets Prime Services Division of Lehman Brothers Inc., where he was responsible for various business, legal and regulatory matters involving the global futures markets. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 1993, he was a Partner and Member of the Executive Committee at Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz in Chicago, IL, and worked other law firms and brokerage firms earlier in his career.
Ronald Filler is a co-author of a law treatise on “Regulation of Financial Derivative Instruments (Swaps, Options and Futures)” and has written extensively on a variety of issues facing the financial services, derivatives, and securities industries throughout his career.
