DAVID PAVÓN HERRADÓN

David Pavón Herradón is Of Counsel in the White-Collar Crime and Compliance Department and Academic Director of Ayuela Jiménez.

He is also Co-Director of the Ayuela Jiménez Chair in Law, Economics and Crime (CADECRIM), which takes a transdisciplinary approach drawing on economic criminal law, criminology and sociology. The Chair’s research projects are conducted through the Grupo Conocimiento e Investigación en Problemáticas Sociales (CGIPS). David is a researcher with the group, which is affiliated with the Faculty of Legal Sciences, Education and Humanities at Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM).

He holds a PhD in Law from the Faculty of Law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award. He also holds a Diploma of Advanced Studies and a degree in Law from the same university, as well as a Diploma in European Institutions from its Jean Monnet Chair.

David is a member of the Madrid Bar Association and has extensive experience in white-collar and corporate crime and criminal compliance. He has worked on numerous criminal cases that have attracted significant media and public attention.

David has received DOCENTIA recognition for teaching excellence. He is an Associate Professor of Criminal Law at Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM), where he also directs the Master’s Programme in Economic Criminal Law. He is an adjunct lecturer at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) and an adjunct lecturer in Criminal Law at Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (IEB). He previously taught at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where he coordinated the Standing Seminar on Criminal Law, and at Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU). He has also taught as a visiting lecturer at Universidade Lusófona do Porto (ULP) in Porto and at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and Instituto de Derecho Peruano e Internacional (IDEPEI) in Peru.

He has authored several monographs and numerous scholarly publications on criminal law, with a particular focus on economic and corporate criminal law and criminal compliance. He has given numerous lectures and presentations and has taken part in national and international conferences and seminars. He previously chaired the Scientific Committee of Instituto de Derecho Peruano e Internacional (IDEPEI). He currently serves on the editorial board of the Revista de Dereito da Universidade Lusófona do Porto (ULP) and acts as a peer reviewer for several journals, including Revista Penal (Tirant lo Blanch).

He has contributed to national and international research projects and undertaken research visits at several universities and affiliated centres.