SEC Recruits Mark J. Flannery as Chief Economist

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on July 21 that it has hired Mark J. Flannery as its new Chief Economist and Director of its Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, which provides interdisciplinary analysis to help inform the Commission’s policymaking, rulemaking, enforcement and examinations.

Dr. Flannery, currently a finance professor at the University of Florida’s Warrington School of Business Administration, will begin his new post in September. He replaces Craig M. Lewis who returned as a professor of finance at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. Since Dr. Lewis left in May, deputy directors, Scott Bauguess and Jennifer Marietta-Westberg have acted as co-directors of the division.

“Professor Flannery is a widely respected economist with extensive experience in many areas relevant to the SEC’s mission, including the Regulation Regulation Like any other industry with a high net worth, the financial services industry is tightly regulated to help curb illicit behavior and manipulation. Each asset class has its own set of protocols put in place to combat their respective forms of abuse.In the foreign exchange space, regulation is assumed by authorities in multiple jurisdictions, though ultimately lacking a binding international order. Who are the Industry’s Leading Regulators?Regulators such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority ( Like any other industry with a high net worth, the financial services industry is tightly regulated to help curb illicit behavior and manipulation. Each asset class has its own set of protocols put in place to combat their respective forms of abuse.In the foreign exchange space, regulation is assumed by authorities in multiple jurisdictions, though ultimately lacking a binding international order. Who are the Industry’s Leading Regulators?Regulators such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority ( Read this Term of financial institutions, corporate finance, private funds, and credit ratings agencies,” said SEC Chair, Mary Jo White. “His decades of research experience in the field of financial economics, as well as his work with other financial regulators, will be valuable assets as he Leads Leads Leads or lead generation are an essential component of marketing and powerful tool by brokers. In its simplest form, leads can be defined as the outreach of customer interest or enquiry into products or services, most often associated with brokerages.These can be created for purposes such as list building, e-newsletter list acquisition, or for sales leads. Amongst marketers, such lists are one of their most important assets and instrumental to sales.There are a variety of methods for generating Leads or lead generation are an essential component of marketing and powerful tool by brokers. In its simplest form, leads can be defined as the outreach of customer interest or enquiry into products or services, most often associated with brokerages.These can be created for purposes such as list building, e-newsletter list acquisition, or for sales leads. Amongst marketers, such lists are one of their most important assets and instrumental to sales.There are a variety of methods for generating Read this Term the Commission’s strong team of economists,”White added.

“I am honored to lead this group of economic experts and hope that my research and professional experience can assist the Commission in its mission to protect investors and make securities markets more efficient,” said Dr. Flannery. Adding, “I look forward to delving into the important economic issues before the Commission and to applying my analytical and empirical tools to this regulatory arena.”

In addition to his teaching experience, Dr. Flannery has served on the Federal Reserve’s Model Validation Council since May 2012 and as a senior adviser at the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research since May 2011. He was a resident scholar at the New York Federal Reserve Bank Research Department from 2009 to 2010 and has served on its Financial Advisory Roundtable since 2006. Dr. Flannery also has been an advisory committee member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Center for Financial Innovation and Financial Stability since 2009. He was the co-director of the FDIC’s Center for Financial Research from 2003 to 2007.