Ron Filler

Biography

​​Ronald H. Filler is a former Professor of Law and a Director of the Financial Services Law Institute at New York Law School (NYLS). He became a Professor Emeritus at NYLS in January 2020. In March 2021, he was named Chair of the newly named Ronald H. Filler Institute on Financial Services Law at NYLS. He has taught several courses involving the financial services industry at four different U.S. law schools over the past 45+ years including, among others, Securities Regulation, Derivatives Regulation and the Regulation of Broker-Dealers, and Futures Commission Merchants. 

​Prior to joining the faculty of NYLS in 2008, he was a Managing Director in the Capital Markets Prime Services Division at 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, a large law firm located in Chicago, IL, and worked at various other law firms and brokerage firms earlier in his career. He is currently a member of, or has served on, numerous industry boards and advisory committees, including serving on the Executive Committee of the Futures Industry Association (FIA) Law & Compliance Division for the past 40+ years. 

​In March 2022, he was inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame. He is currently a Member of the Board of Directors and a past member of the Executive Committee of the National Futures Association (NFA) where he serves as a Public Director and has served, or currently serves, on several NFA Committees; a Public Representative on the Board of Director of ABAXX Clearing, a clearinghouse located in Singapore and is the Chair of its Regulatory Oversight Conflicts Committee; and a former Public Director of the Board of Directors, and Chair of the Nominating Committee and of the Regulatory Oversight Committee, of Swap-Ex, a swap execution facility owned by State Street. 

​Ron previously served as the Chair of the CFTC’s 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, and served as a Senior Consultant to Allen & Overy, a major international law firm. Ron has been a member of several U.S. futures exchanges during his career and has spoken at over 300 business and law programs during his 45+ year career in the global futures and securities industries. Ron 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.​