Business Advisory Council Membership

Scott Christopher Rankin

Scott Christopher Rankin is a senior executive, lawyer and lobbyist with extensive experience managing international trade associations in the financial industry and dealing with diverse, multi-national constituencies.  Prior to taking a sabbatical, Scott was co-founder and Head of the European Securitisation Forum (ESF), the London-based, high-profile, pan-European association representing the structured finance industry.  He had executive management responsibilities over all aspects of the organisation, including strategic planning, business development, legal, financial, regulatory policy, administrative as well as educational and media outreach.  He regularly chaired and hosted industry-wide conferences as well as major international roundtables and meetings between high-level financial regulators and senior industry leaders.  Scott was a member of the European Union’s Expert Group on Financial Services Issues, advising the European Commission through formal recommendations and reports.  He has also co-authored and co-edited a seminal securitisation guidebook, and was a founding member of the editorial board for an international financial journal.

Scott has also served as Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel of the Bond Market Association (BMA), the major trade association representing investment banks and other key participants in the global debt markets.  After revitalising and expanding one of BMA’s core divisions in New York, he was chosen to open and head BMA's offices in Europe, where he aggressively expanded its presence across Europe and strengthened its reputation as the premier association for the international debt markets.  Scott was a member of BMA's senior management, providing both strategic and tactical business advice on a wide array of international and US market issues, including on the integration of smaller European trade associations into the BMA as well as on the development of industry-wide, pan-European responses to major European regulatory, legal and market practice initiatives.

Scott began his career practicing banking law at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he developed expertise in complex financial instruments such as repurchase agreements, swaps and derivatives.  He also worked extensively with domestic and international agencies on the structuring of global debt facilities and the related debt, equity or hybrid instrument prospectuses.

Scott is a member of the DC and New York bars.  He is also a member of the International Bar Association, the Fulbright Alumni Association, and the Georgetown University Alumni Admissions Committee.  He is active philanthropically and recently established his own philanthropic foundation. 

He received his Bachelor of Science in International Relations, cum laude, from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, was a Fulbright Scholar in Comparative Law at the University of Munich and received his Doctor of Law from Boston College Law School.


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