33rd Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission
Incumbent
Assumed office April 17, 2021
President
Joe Biden
Preceded by
Allison Lee (Acting)
11th Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
In office May 26, 2009 – January 3, 2014
President
Barack Obama
Preceded by
Reuben Jeffery III
Succeeded by
Timothy Massad
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance
In office April 1999 – January 20, 2001
President
Bill Clinton
Preceded by
John Hawke
Succeeded by
Peter Fisher
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets
In office September 1997 – April 1999
President
Bill Clinton
Preceded by
Darcy Bradbury
Succeeded by
Lee Sachs
Personal details
Born
(1957-10-18) October 18, 1957 (age 66) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Francesca Danieli
(m. 1986; died 2006)
Children
3
Education
University of Pennsylvania (BS, MBA)
Gary Gensler (born October 18, 1957) is an American government official and former Goldman Sachs investment banker serving as the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).[1] Gensler previously led the Biden–Harris transition's Federal Reserve, Banking, and Securities Regulators agency review team.[2] Prior to his appointment, he was professor of Practice of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.[3]
Gensler served as the 11th chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, under President Barack Obama, from May 26, 2009, to January 3, 2014. He was the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance (1999–2001), and the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets (1997–1999). Prior to his career in the federal government, Gensler worked at Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner and co-head of finance. Gensler also served as the CFO for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.[4] President Joe Biden nominated Gensler to serve as 33rd chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[5] He succeeded SEC Acting Chair Allison Lee.
^"Gary Gensler". SEC.gov. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
^"Agency Review Teams". President-Elect Joe Biden. Archived from the original on November 10, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
^Dizikes, Peter (January 19, 2021). "MIT Sloan's Gary Gensler to be nominated for chair of Securities and Exchange Commission". MIT. MIT News. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
^"The Problem With Hillary Clinton Using a Progressive Hero to Attack Bernie Sanders". Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
^"President-elect Joe Biden to name Gary Gensler as U.S. SEC chair, sources say". CNBC. January 12, 2021. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
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