Xenia Seabright

Seabright is a doctoral researcher in International law at the University of Vienna, where her work sits at the intersection of international financial law, global governance, and law and political economy. Her doctoral dissertation, The Impact of Margin Requirements on the Bilaterally Cleared OTC Derivatives Market, examines how post-crisis derivatives regulation, soft law, and international standard-setting shape the derivatives markets. She was a visiting scholar at Radboud University, conducting research on European financial market infrastructure, and holds an MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford and a Magistra Iuris from the University of Vienna. Before returning to academia, she worked in derivatives practice and financial regulation at the Austrian Financial Market Authority, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and PwC. Her research interests include international economic law, financial regulation, financial sanctions, EU external relations, and the political economy of global finance. At BILC 2026, she presents on de-dollarisation and global financial law, exploring monetary governance in a multipolar era.