Megan Bowman is a full Professor of Law and founding Director of the Centre for Climate Law & Governance at King’s College London. An award-winning scholar and teacher, her expertise focuses on investigating 'fit for purpose' financial regulation and corporate law in the context of the climate crisis and planetary sustainability. Her research has been cited in a range of multidisciplinary forums including scientific reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2022), the UN High-Level Climate Champions' Pivot Point regulatory report (2022) and featured in the eco-arts digital display The Quiet Enchanting on The Strand in London (2023).

Megan founded the King’s/United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) partnership on Legal Readiness for Climate Finance and has been Principal Investigator on several high impact research grants including a prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship on Regulatory Leadership for a Climate Finance Transition regarding sustainability-related financial regulation in Europe and the UK (2020-2022). Her first book Banking on Climate Change: How Finance Actors and Transnational Regulatory Regimes are Responding (Kluwer 2015) was lauded as ground-breaking and launched in London by then Hon. Mr. Justice William Blair of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. Her current work explores justice imperatives in the context of systems change and corporate accountability under a King’s Sustainability Seed Grant on Youth-focused Climate Litigation (2023-2025) and integrating climate and sustainability dimensions into law curricula under a King’s Academy Seed Grant on Acclimatising the Curriculum (2023-2025). Megan is a qualified barrister and solicitor of the High Court of Australia and Supreme Court of Victoria with a double degree in Arts/Law (Hons, Monash), an LLM in Comparative Law (McGill) and a PhD in regulatory theory (ANU).