Dr. Matthew Cain
Matthew Cain is a Senior Fellow at Berkeley Law School, University of California. He has provided economic analysis, consulting, and expert witness testimony in a variety of finance topics on behalf of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other clients, including investigations, settlement negotiations, and trials. Dr. Cain spent several years working at the SEC, where he served as an advisor to Commissioner Robert J. Jackson, Jr. He also worked as a Financial Economist in the Office of Litigation Economics, part of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis.
Prior to working with the SEC, Dr. Cain was an Assistant Professor of Finance in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Purdue University, and prior to academia, he worked as an analyst in debt capital markets. He has published research in finance, accounting, law, and economics journals on topics including investment banking and fairness opinion valuations, private equity and merger contracts and terminations, corporate governance and shareholder activism, hostile takeovers, earnout clauses, merger-related litigation, and management buyouts. Download Matthew Cain’s Bio and CV
Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena
Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena is a professional faculty member at the Haas School of Business, the Energy and Resources Group, and the Legal Studies department at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches classes about business, labor and global supply chains. She is also currently a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at UC Berkeley. She also teaches in a number of programs for corporate executives and practitioners, including through the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) and the University of Bergen, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the Centre for Sustainable Business at the University College London (UCL), and the Business and Human Rights Summer School in Italy.
Dr. Saxena is currently a Senior Advisor to Article One, a specialized strategy and management consultancy with expertise in human rights, responsible innovation, and sustainability where she advises companies on responsible supply chains.. She has also served as an advisor to a number of organizations including the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, GIZ Initiative for Global Solidarity, and the H&M Foundation. She is currently a non-resident Research Fellow at the IHRB and is a member of the Research Network on Sustainable Global Supply Chains. In the past, she was a Visiting Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights (2023-2024), a visiting Researcher at the Copenhagen Business School (2023), a practitioner resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy (2016), and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C (2010 and 2014). Prior to these roles, she was the Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley. For more information, please visit sanchitasaxena.com