Anna Donovan is an Associate Professor of corporate law at UCL Faculty of Laws and is the Director of the UCL Centre for Ethics and Law. Anna’s work sits at the intersection of corporate law and behaviour, exploring how institutional rules shape human behaviour across legal fields including corruption, ethics, and technology.

Her recent monograph, Reconceptualising Corporate Compliance, was joint runner-up for the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, and she co-edits Pettet, Lowry and Reisberg’s Company Law. Anna was the inaugural Vice Dean (Innovation) at the Faculty of Laws.

She is a member of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, a TechWomen100 winner, and a former panel member of LawtechUK. Prior to academia, Anna was a corporate solicitor in the City, and she is also admitted as an attorney in New York.