David Ramos Muñoz is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid where he teaches Commercial and Corporate and Securities Law. He graduated in Law and Business Administration from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid as the top student of his class. After a year in the private sector (J&A Garrigues) and a brief spell at Freshfields London as a result of his winning a Freshfields prize for best European Business Law Student, he got his Master in Private Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid with a dissertation on “Specific Performance in Commercial Arbitration”. He later obtained his PhD from the University of Bologna (Italy), with the thesis “Securitization and Special Purpose Vehicles in an International Setting: A Systemic View”. His work for his PhD led to the publishing of his book “The Law of Transnational Securitization”, Oxford University Press, 2010. Dr. Ramos Muñoz has published in different journals, and conducted graduate and postgraduate teaching inside and outside Spain. He has also been coaching the team of Universidad Carlos III in the Willem C Vis Moot for several years, including 2008, when the team was the champion of the competition; and he currently coordinates the Moot Madrid, the first mooting competition in arbitration and uniform law in Spanish. His interests are, on the one hand, in the field of international and comparative contract and arbitration law; and, on the other hand, on the law of financial markets and financial transactions. He is married and with one child, and enjoys reading when he succeeds in getting the time; which is not so often.