Lewis, Mervyn K.

(Professor, Emeritus Professor of Banking, University of Southern Australia, Australia) Mervyn K. Lewis is Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of South Australia. Previously he was Midland Bank Professor of Money and Banking at the University of Nottingham. He was also a Consultant to the Australian Financial System Inquiry, Visiting Scholar at the Bank of England, inaugural Securities Commission-University of Malaya Visiting Scholar, and has been visiting professor at the Universities of Cambridge, Melbourne, Vienna, Wuhan, Mauritius, Goettingen and Euromed Marseilles. He is a member of the ANZ Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. In 1986 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Professor Lewis has published twenty-two books, 70 articles and 83 chapters. Recent volumes are Reforming China’s state-owned enterprises and banks (2006), Handbook of Islamic Banking (2007), Islamic Finance (2007), Untangling the U.S. Deficit (2007) and An Islamic Perspective on Governance (2009). His latest book is Global Finance after the Crisis. The United States, China and the New World Order (2013). He is currently working on Understanding Ponzi Schemes: Can better financial regulation prevent investors from being defrauded.