Timothy Ridley

Timothy Ridley is a Cayman Islands attorney-at-law. He provides legal consulting and advisory services and acts as an expert witness in Cayman Islands legal and regulatory matters. He was for many years a senior partner of Maples and Calder, a leading offshore law firm based in the Cayman Islands. He is a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal Committee of the Cayman Islands Society of Professional Accountants (CISPA) and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Foundation for Fund Governance. He has taught law at the University of Southampton and at Trinity College, Cambridge and has served on the editorial boards of the Harvard International Law Journal and the Cayman Financial Review. He served as a director of the Cayman Health Service Authority (2002-2005) and as a director and chairman of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (2002-2008). He was appointed an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in 1996 in recognition of his services to the financial services industry and the local community in the Cayman Islands.