Bruce Whittaker is an Australian banking and finance lawyer. He worked for most of his career as a partner in the finance practice at Ashurst law firm, with a particular focus on secured transactions. Bruce is currently a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School.

From 2016 to 2019, Bruce was the Australian delegate to Working Group VI of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), dealing with the drafting of UNCITRAL’s Model Law on Secured Transactions and the accompanying Guide to Enactment. This included two years as chair of the Working Group. Bruce also chaired Working Group I through the finalization of the UNCITRAL/UNIDROIT Model Law on Warehouse Receipts.

Bruce represents Australia at meetings of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in relation to the Pretoria Protocol to the Cape Town Convention. Bruce was also a member of the UNIDROIT expert groups that developed the Model Law on Factoring and the Model Law on Warehouse Receipts.

Bruce has worked on projects for secured transactions law reform or post-reform training for a range of states in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, including states with common law, civil law, and Shariah law systems. Projects that Bruce has worked on recently with the ILI include in Nepal, Brunei, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste.