Gary Gensler
Senior Advisor to the Director, MIT Media Lab; Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; Chairman, Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission
Gary Gensler is Senior Advisor to the Director, MIT Media Lab; Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; and Chairman, Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission. He formerly was Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, leading the Obama Administration’s reform of the $400 trillion swaps market. During the Clinton Administration, he was Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Previously, Gensler was a partner at Goldman Sachs. He earned his MBA and BSE from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the 2014 Tamar Frankel Fiduciary Prize.