Mary Schapiro
 Mary Schapiro      | |
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| Born | June 19, 1955 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Franklin and Marshall College, George Washington University |
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3, The American Academy in Berlin/Distinguished Visitors, WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1998 |
| Party | Independent |
Mary Lovelace Schapiro[1] served as the 29th Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She was appointed by President Barack Obama, unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and assumed the Chairship on January 27, 2009. She is the first woman to be the permanent Chair of the SEC.[2] In 2009, Forbes ranked her the 56th most powerful woman in the world.[3]
Schapiro served in various roles as a financial services regulator in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. From 2006 to early 2009, she was the Chairman and CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the securities industry's self-regulatory organization for broker-dealers and exchanges in the United States.[4] Schapiro is the first person to lead both the SEC and the CFTC, and the only one to have chaired those two agencies as well as FINRA.[5]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | Switzerland World Economic Forum | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
References
- ↑ https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/textual/smof/coappoin.pdf
- ↑ "Obama taps veteran regulator to head under-fire SEC", Agence France Presse, December 18, 2008, accessed February 6, 2009.
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/11/power-women-09_The-100-Most-Powerful-Women_Rank_3.html
- ↑ https://www.sec.gov/about/commissioner/schapiro.htm
- ↑ https://www.sec.gov/about/commissioner/schapiro.htm
