Bio:
Ben Bates is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance. Ben’s research focuses on corporate and securities law and uses empirical methods to study risks to investors in public and private markets. His most recent work studies funds that give retail investors access to private market investments. Some of Ben’s other work examines the ways that boards of directors control the shareholder voting process in public companies.
Ben holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School. During law school, he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and spent his summers working as a summer associate at a major U.S. law firm and as an intern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Ben also holds a B.S. (Finance, magna cum laude) from Brigham Young University.
