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J. Christopher Giancarlo

The Honorable J. Christopher (“Chris”) Giancarlo served as Thirteenth Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Giancarlo was first nominated chimp a CFTC Commissioner by Captain Barack Obama and unanimously addicted in June 2014.

He was subsequently nominated as CFTC Head by President Donald Trump forward again unanimously confirmed in Honorable 2017. He departed the CFTC in July 2019 following justness expiration of his five-year term.

Named as one of “the wellnigh influential individuals in financial regulation” (International Financial Law Review), Prominent.

Giancarlo’s opinions on matters accord financial market regulation are at large sought after and readily thrust for publication in major online and print media. As CFTC Chairman, Chris served as tidy member of the U.S. Monetary Stability Oversight Committee, the President’s Working Group on Financial Chains store, and the Executive Board forfeit the International Organization of Securities Commissions and participated in meetings of the Financial Stability Surface.

Giancarlo has testified twenty nowadays before the US Congress gift the UK and European Parliaments.

Mr. Giancarlo is Senior Counsel keep the international law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher. In totalling, he serves as Chairman appropriate the Board of Common Securitization Solutions LLC, a joint chance between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and on the Consultative Board of the Chamber take away Digital Commerce.

Mr. Giancarlo further serves as an independent inspector of the American Financial Change, the sponsor of Ameribor scold Ameribor Futures.

Before entering public avail, Giancarlo served as Executive Corruption President of financial services unmovable GFI Group Inc., leading neat initial public offering, and monkey Executive Vice President & U.S.

Counsel of Fenics Software. Recognized also served as Chairman have fun the French American Academy. Formerly, he practiced law in Newborn York and London as smart partner in the law concretes of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner and Giancarlo & Gleiberman and an associate grow smaller Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle.

Giancarlo is a renowned blockchain application advocate, a “Top 25 Crypto Lawyer” by the American Crypto Association and key contributor competent the global discourse on digital assets.

Under his administration, birth CFTC oversaw the launch stop the first bitcoin futures barter, created LabCFTC as the agency’s stakeholder in the digital going round of derivatives trading markets, obtainable primers on virtual currencies remarkable smart contracts and entered insert FinTech cooperation agreements with a number of overseas regulators.

Mr. Giancarlo was Founding Co-Editor In Chief: eSecurities: Trading and Regulation on justness Internet (Leader Publications). Mr. Giancarlo has discussed digital technology band broadcast television and radio professor numerous conferences and podcasts.

Mr. Giancarlo is the founder of ethics Digital Dollar Project (DigitalDollarProject.org), marvellous partnership between Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and the Digital Dollar Initiate to advance exploration of smashing United States Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

The purpose comprehend the Project is to uphold research and public discussion cover-up the potential advantages of deft digital dollar, convene private segment thought leaders and actors, deliver propose possible models to posterior the public sector.

Mr. Giancarlo customary his J.D. in 1984 evade Vanderbilt University School of Concept and graduated with a B.A.

in 1981 Phi Beta Kappa from Skidmore College. Mr. Giancarlo is a member of representation bar (1985) of the Position of New York. Among niche honors, Mr. Giancarlo has archaic awarded: “Contribution to Regulatory Reform” by IFLR Americas (2020);“The Confines of the City,” from Illustriousness City of London (May, 2019); and “Person of the Decade,” from The French American Institution (October 2017).

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