Gary Gensler
Chair, US Securities and Exchange Commission
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Gary Gensler is chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Before joining the SEC, Gensler was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was formerly chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, leading the Obama administration's reform of the $400 trillion swaps market. He also was senior advisor to US Sen. Paul Sarbanes in writing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), and was undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance and assistant secretary of the Treasury from 1997–2001. In recognition of his service, he was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Award, the US Treasury's highest honor.
