Michael Riegels
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Michael Riegels, QC is currently the chairman of the Financial Services Commission of the British Virgin Islands. He is also the president of the British Virgin Islands Red Cross. He is a qualified barrister and was formerly the senior partner of Harneys from 1984 to 1997, and was the president of the BVI Bar Association from 1996 to 1998.
Michael Riegels was also part of the "gang of five" who drafted the original International Business Companies Act in 1984, the principal statute of the BVI's offshore finance industry for many years (and subsequently copied by a large number of competing offshore jurisdictions).
In 1999 he was appointed by the Government as chairman of a public inquiry in relation to the escape of certain Colombian prisoners who were on remand awaiting trial for charges relating to drug trafficking.
He was educated at Prince of Wales School in Nairobi, Kenya and Oxford University where he won an full blue for athletics. He was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales in 1961 as a member of Gray's Inn, and to the Bar of the British Virgin Islands in 1973.
