Speakers

Attend the March Regional Symposium and hear:

Chris Cox
Chris Cox was the 28th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He was appointed by President Bush on June 2, 2005. During his tenure at the SEC, Chairman Cox made vigorous enforcement of the securities laws the top priority. He assumed leadership of the international effort to more closely integrate U.S. and overseas regulation in an era of global capital markets and international securities exchanges. Also, he championed transforming the SEC's system of mandated disclosure from a static, form-based approach to one that taps the power of interactive data to give investors qualitatively better information about companies, mutual funds and investments of all kinds. As part of an overall focus on the needs of individual investors, Chairman Cox reinvigorated the agency's initiative to provide important investor information in plain English.

For 10 of his 17 years in Congress, Chairman Cox served in the Majority Leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was Chairman of the House Policy Committee; Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security; Chairman of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security; Chairman of the Select Committee on Homeland Security; Chairman of the Task Force on Capital Markets; and Chairman of the Task Force on Budget Process Reform.

Among the significant laws he authored were the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, which protects investors from Fraudulent lawsuits, and the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which protects Internet users from multiple and discriminatory taxation.

Cox received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received his BA from the University of Southern California in 1973.