dr. NM (Nathan) de Arriba-Sellier, LL.M

Biography

Nathan de Arriba-Sellier is the Director of the Erasmus Platform for Sustainable Value Creation at Rotterdam School of Management, where he leads research on sustainable finance policy and regulation.

Prior to his current position, Nathan was the Research Director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance, a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, and a Lecturer at Yale University. In this capacity, he organized the 6th Annual Conference of the Global Research Alliance on Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) and received the 2023 Yale Sustainability Award for Faculty.

Nathan's expertise in sustainable finance is recognized internationally, and covers a wide array of legal issues related to finance and the environment, particularly corporate law, financial regulation, and monetary policy. EU constitutional and administrative law also count among his research interests.

Nathan was a visiting scholar at Stanford Unviersity, Duke University, and Queen Mary University of London. He has published articles in top-tier law reviews both in Europe and in the United States, and presented his research at prestigious institutions such as the Bank of England, or the Max Planck Institute. His research has featured internationally in mainstream and specialized media, from Le Monde to Het Financieele Dagblad and Politico.

Nathan received a double doctoral degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University as a LDE fellow. Prior to his PhD, Nathan clerked for the EU law unit of Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court and legal advisor to the government. Before that, he was an assistant to the French General Consul in Hamburg, Germany. He also used to serve as vice-president in charge of student life at his alma mater, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3.

In addition to his PhD, Nathan holds an LL.M in EU Law from College of Europe (Bruges) as well as an LL.M. in International and European Business Law from the University of Vienna. He graduated valedictorian with a 'Maîtrise' in European law from the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 after a year at University Hamburg where he was enrolled as part of the Erasmus exchange programme. During his bachelor, he studied French public law, German law and U.S. law.