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Gary Gensler
Former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Chair, 2021 to 2025, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Chairman, 2009 to 2014, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Background
Gary Gensler is a former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, serving from 2021 to 2025.
He spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs before his career in the federal government.
He chaired the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2009 to 2014.
Key facts
- Born
- October 18, 1957source
- SEC chair
- 33rd chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2021 to 2025source
- CFTC chair
- 11th chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, May 26, 2009, to January 3, 2014source
- Goldman Sachs
- Joined in 1979 and spent 18 years theresource
- Education
- Degree in economics, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvaniasource
- Before SEC appointment
- Professor of Practice of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Managementsource
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