SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter. Courtesy photo.
LA JOLLA–SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter will speak on “Plan and Prospects for Financial Reform” at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, April 23 at the University of California San Diego Faculty Club. The $50.00 per person cost to attend the Economics Roundtable includes continental breakfast and parking.
Walter was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was sworn in on July 9, 2008. She is one of the five commissioners with the SEC. A former senior executive vice president for regularity policy and programs at the Financial Industry Regularity Authority (FINRA), the nation’s regulator of securities firms, Walter has spent much of her career at the SEC and financial industry regulating entities.
Harvey Goldschmidt, a former SEC Commissioner said of her SEC appointment: “She brought a new breadth, high intelligence and integrity that everyone admired…at just the right moment.” SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro said of Walter: “She has a phenomenal ability to cut through lots of information, lots of complexity, understand the situation, and then be creative in coming up with a good way forward.”
Walter graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in mathematics and received her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. She is a member of the Academy of Woman Achievers of the YWCA of New York City, and has received the Presidential Rank Award, the SEC Chairman’s Award for Excellence, and the SEC’s Distinguished Service Award.
Future 2010 Economics Roundtable speakers include Acting Dean of the UC San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies Takeo Hoshi on July 20.
