Cally Jordan has degrees in both civil law and common law (LL.B/B.C.L. McGill University; D.E.A., Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)) which she obtained after a B.A., with distinction (Carleton) and a M.A. (University of Toronto). She has practised in Canada, New York, California and Hong Kong and spent several years in the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton working in the area of international finance.
Cally has spent over a decade with the World Bank, both as a consultant and as a full-time advisor, on commercial law, financial law, corporate governance, and corporate law in a number of countries (Indonesia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Chile, Korea, Slovakia, Armenia, Macedonia, Lithuania, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Bahrain, Mauritius).
Between 1991 and 1996, she was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University and member of the Institute of Comparative and Private Law. More recently, she has been an Associate Professor at the University of Florida and has taught as an adjunct at the University of Melbourne, Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada. She is a frequent speaker on corporate governance, capital markets and corporate law. She is the author of proposals for the reform of Hong Kong companies law and spent nearly five years living in Asia.
In 2003, Cally was elected to the American Law Institute and is a member of the Australian Law Council.
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