Paul Davies was the Allen & Overy Professor of Company Law at the University of Oxford between 2009 and 2014. Between 1998 and 2009 he was Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a member of the British Government's Steering Group for the Company Law Review (1999-2001), which led to the new Companies Act 2006. He is now a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, an honorary QC and an honorary bencher of Gray's Inn.