Christoph Van der Elstis professor of Business Law and Economics at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and at Ghent University (Belgium). He holds both a master in law and a master in economics and has a Ph.D. in economics (Ghent University, Belgium). He is also a research associate of ECGI. He is/was visiting professor at several European Universities. He is a member of the Belgian Bar since 1995. His research interests are corporate governance, (economic analysis of) company law and corporate risk management. His work has been published in academic and professional journals like European Business Organization Law Review, International Review of Law and Economics, European Company and Financial Law Review, Corporate Finance and Capital Market Law Review and European Company Law and with major publishers like Oxford, Cambridge, Edgard Elgar, De Gruyter and Kluwer Law International.